JOHN ENGLISH is the General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, a professor of history at the University of Waterloo, and executive director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography of Lester Pearson, Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson, Volume 1: 1897–1948, and The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester Pearson, Volume 2: 1949–1972, along with several other books on Canadian politics. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.