Jack Batten
b. 1932 · 26 books
Biography
Jack Batten was born in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School and practised law from 1959 to 1963, when he left law to become a full-time magazine writer. He has worked for Maclean’s Magazine and the Star Weekly, and written for other magazines including Chatelaine, Rolling Stone, and Toronto Life. He has written radio plays for the CBC and a jazz column for The Globe and Mail. He has written over thirty books on subjects that include biography, crime fiction, law and court cases, and sports. His biography of Tom Longboat won the Norma Fleck Award for best children's nonfiction in 2002. Currently, he writes books and reviews crime novels for The Sunday Star.
Books by Jack Batten
A Brilliant and Appalling Life
Learned Friends
The Leafs
Hockey Dynasties
The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone
Big Bay Point, Lake Simcoe, On
Big Bay Point, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Awards, Honors & Prizes: International and Foreign 1998 (Awards, Honors, and Prizes Volume 2: International and Foreign)
Everyday Law
The Leafs, an anecdotal history of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Class of 1975
The spirit of the regiment
Riviera Blues
Crang plays the Ace
Robinette
The Appleby story
The Appleby story
UTS
UTS
Robinette, the dean of Canadia
Robinette, the dean of Canadian lawyers
In court
Canada at the Olympics
Canada moves westward, 1880/1890
The complete jogger
The Toronto Golf Club, 1876-19
The Toronto Golf Club, 1876-1976
The Leafs in autumn
Honest Ed's story
The inside story of Conn Smyth
The inside story of Conn Smythe's hockey dynasty
Nancy, an affectionate look in
Nancy, an affectionate look in pictures at the world's greatest woman skier