Alan Haig-Brown

For the British Army officer, author and amateur footballer, see Alan Haig-Brown (footballer).

Alan Roderick Haig-Brown (born 1941) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He specializes in commercial marine and commercial fishing writing and photography. He is a regular contributor to a number of marine publications including Professional Mariner magazine where many of his articles are archived.^[1]

He lives in New Westminster, British Columbia and Bangkok, Thailand.

He is the second youngest of four children^[2] to Canadian writer Roderick Haig-Brown, who taught him how to hunt and fish, and librarian Ann Elmore Haig-Brown.^[3] He grew up in Campbell River, BC. He is the father of film maker Helen Haig-Brown and grandfather to four grandchildren.^[4]

Bibliography

• The Suzie A (1991)
• Fishing for a Living (1993)
• Hell No, We Won't Go: Vietnam Draft Resisters in Canada (1996)
• The Fraser River (1996)
• Still Fishin' (2010)
• The Teak Box (2012)
• (co-author) Raincoast Chronicles: Fifth Five (2024)
• Raincoast Chronicles 25 : m̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing (2025)