Non-fiction Awards 1986 Canadian Science Writers' Association Award, for "The Lamanai Enigma" 1990 Shortlist, Trillium Book Award, for Time Among the Maya 1991 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Award, for "Going to the Wall" 1992 Nominated, Author of the Year, CBA Libris Award, for Stolen Continents 1993 Gordon Montador Award, for Stolen Continents 1995 The Globe and Mail Editor's Choice, for A Scientific Romance 1996 Honorary Doctorate, University of Calgary 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction for A Scientific Romance 1998 The Sunday Times (UK) Book of the Year, for A Scientific Romance 2005 Finalist, British Columbia Achievement Foundation Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, for A Short History of Progress 2005 CBA Libris Award, "Non-Fiction Book of the Year," for A Short History of Progress Personal life In 2004, Wright moved from Ontario to one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. See also Societal collapse References External links Official Website, Ronald Wright British Columbia Achievement Foundation Award biography of Ronald Wright as a finalist for Canadian non-fiction in 2005 Massey Lecture: A Short History of Progress,, Ronald Wright, 2017 1948 births Living people Canadian male novelists 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian historians British emigrants to Canada