Ian Weir author biography, plus links to books by Ian Weir.

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Ian Weir

North Carolina-born Ian Weir is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He holds both American and Canadian citizenship. His first historical fiction novel, Daniel O'Thunder, was named one of the top historical novels of 2011 by Library Journal and was a finalist for four awards: The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for First Book, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Ian lives near Vancouver, B.C., and was writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed CBC miniseries Dragon Boys and is creator and executive producer of the CBC hit tv series Arctic Air. He has also written more than 150 episodes for over twenty different series, stage plays, radio plays, and young adult novels. Will Starling is his second novel for adults.

This biography was last updated on 02/03/2015.

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