Ken Becker is the author of The Expat Files, a memoir of his fifty years in journalism in the United States and Canada.

He began his career as a copyboy at the New York Times and worked as a reporter and/or editor for United Press International, the Canadian Press, the Toronto Sun, Livermore (California) Herald & News and Waterville (Maine) Morning Sentinel.

He was also a regular contributor to Maclean’s magazine, a writer and producer for CBC News, and a journalism teacher at Humber College in Toronto.

​Born and raised in New York City, Ken has lived and worked in San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Bern, Switzerland, and small towns in northern California, Maine, and Northern Ontario.

Now, from his home is suburban Toronto, he goes out every day looking for wildlife to photograph.