Stephen Kimber


Stephen Edward Kimber is a Canadian journalist, editor and broadcaster and instructor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Early life and education

Kimber was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended Dalhousie University from 1967 to 1970, where he served as editor of the Dalhousie Gazette. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Baltimore in 2001.

Career

From 1985 to 2002 he was the weekly political and general columnist for The Daily News in Halifax. He is currently a weekly political and public affairs columnist for the Halifax Examiner and a Contributing Editor for Atlantic Business Magazine. His writing has appeared in many major Canadian newspapers and magazines. As an Ottawa-based broadcaster, he was a current affairs producer on CTV Television Network and a producer, story editor, writer and host for many CBC Television and radio programs.
He has been a professor at the University of King's College since 1983 and has been the director of the School of Journalism three times. In 2013, he co-founded the university's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program.

Honours

Kimber received an honorable mention from the Centre for Investigative Journalism that he shared with Kelly Shiers for an article in Cities Magazine about the botched search for a little boy lost in the woods of Nova Scotia.
He won the 2022 Evelyn Richardson Award for his book Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics.
In 2023, he was appointed a member of the Order of Nova Scotia for representing Nova Scotia in the national press and mentoring several generations of journalists.

Books

  • Net Profits
  • The Spirit of Africville
  • More Than Just Folks
  • Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash
  • NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan
  • * Aphrodisiac: Sex, Politics, Power and Gerald Regan
  • Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War ;
  • * Winner, Richardson Award
  • * Winner,
  • * Torgi Award, CNIB Nonfiction Audio Book Award
  • * Finalist, Atlantic Booksellers Award
  • Reparations: A Novel
  • * Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction
  • * Finalist Arthur Ellis Crime Writers of Canada First Novel Award
  • Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, NS 1783-1792 ;
  • * Finalist, Richardson Award
  • * Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Nonfiction
  • IWK: A Century of Caring
  • Halifax: Warden of the North
  • What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five
  • * Winner, Richardson Award
  • * Long-listed, Libris Award for Best Canadian Nonfiction Book
  • * Readers Choice Award, Cuban Institute of the Book
  • The Sweetness in the Lime
  • Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics
  • * Winner Richardson Award
  • Bitcoin Widow: Love, Betrayal and the Missing Millions
  • ''The Phelan Feud: The Bitter Struggle for Control of a Great Canadian Food Empire''