Donn Jean Kushner was an American-born Canadian scientist and writer.
13 Facts About Donn Kushner
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Donn Kushner taught biology at the University of Ottawa and Toronto from 1965 to 1992 and authored both adult and children's books, some of which won awards.
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Donn Jean Kushner was born on March 29,1927, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.
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In 1948, Kushner moved to Canada and became a Canadian Citizen.
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Donn Kushner studied at Harvard and McGill Universities, and earned a Bachelor of Science from Harvard in 1948, a Master of Science from McGill in 1950, and a PhD from McGill in 1952.
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From 1965 to 1967, Donn Kushner was an associate professor of biology at the University of Ottawa and was Professor of Biology from 1967 to 1988.
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Donn Kushner then left Ottawa and became a professor of biology at the University of Toronto from 1988 until his retirement in 1992 and was a Fellow of Victoria College from 1988 to 1992.
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In 1988, Donn Kushner joined the Departments of Microbiology and Botany, and the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto.
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In 1986, Donn Kushner received the Ottawa Biological and Biochemical Society Award and, in 1992, he received the Canadian Society of Microbiologists Award.
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Donn Kushner was president of the Canadian Society for Microbiology and edited Archives of Microbiology.
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In 1981, Donn Kushner published a collection of short fiction for adults called The Witness and Other Stories.
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Donn Kushner published several more children's books, including Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story, A Book Dragon, which won the National Chapter of Canada IODE Violet Downey Book Award in 1988, The House of the Good Spirits, The Dinosaur Duster, A Thief Among Statues, The Night Voyagers, and Peter's Pixie, the latter of which was published posthumously.
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Donn Kushner died in Toronto after struggling against two illnesses, on September 15,2001.