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The author of Putting a Roof on Winter (2000) and The Magnificent One: The Mario Lemieux Story (2002), Michael McKinley is also a journalist, a documentary filmmaker, and a screenwriter. A Vancouver native, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and at Oxford University. While at Oxford, he was also associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. His journalism has appeared in major venues on two continents, including the Guardian, Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, the National Post, and Saturday Night. He has also written and produced several documentaries for CNN, and has even written one episode of South Park. He lives in Vancouver.