蓋伊·範德海格1951齣生於加拿大薩斯喀徹溫省。他的第一部作品《走下坡路的人》（1982）獲加拿大最高文學奬——總督文學奬與英國菲伯奬，此後他發錶瞭長篇小說《我現在的年齡》，此書獲得1984年布剋奬提名。他在1989年發錶的長篇小說《鄉思》獲得多倫多市圖書奬。他的作品《事物真相》，是一部受到廣泛好評的短篇小說集。

Winner of the Governor General's Award

Counterpointing the stories of the legendary Western cowboy Shorty McAdoo and Harry Vincent, the ambitious young screenwriter commissioned to retell his story in 1920s Hollywood, this novel reconstructs an epic journey through Montana into the Canadian plains, by a group of men pursuing their stolen horses.

"The Englishman's Boy" intelligently and creatively depicts an American West where greed and deception are tempered by honor and strength. As Richard Ford has noted, "Vanderhaeghe is simply a wonderful writer. "The Englishman's Boy," spanning as it does two countries, two centuries, two views of history"--"the Canadian Wild West as 'imagined' by Hollywood"--"is a great accomplishment. Readers, I think, will find this book irresistible."