John Wilson Foster spent his academic career at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and is now a freelance writer and scholar in Belfast. He writes on Irish and British literature, natural history and culture. His most recent books include Nature in Ireland (ed. 1997), Titanic (ed. 1999), Irish Novels 1890-1940 (2008) and Between Shadows (2009). A dramatic monologue, A Better Boy, has been recently performed in Belfast, Brussels and Paris. Pilgrims of the Air, the story of the passenger pigeon, was published by Notting Hill Editions in 2014.