Rudy Wiebe was born in the Mennonite homestead community of Speedwell, Saskatchewan. Since the 1950s, he has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring readers with award-winning novels, short stories, essays, memoir, histories, and screenplays. Wiebe received the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1973 for The Temptations of Big Bear and again in 1994 for A Discovery of Strangers. In 2004 he won the Charles Taylor Prize for his memoir, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. Wiebe is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives with his wife Tena in Edmonton, Alberta.
