Andrew Westoll

Andrew Westoll
Born	Andrew Westoll
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	Novelist, creative non-fiction
Notable works	The Riverbones, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
Spouse	Samantha Westoll

Andrew Westoll is an award-winning Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for his non-fiction book The Chimps of Fauna Foundation: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery.

A primatologist, Westoll previously published the travel memoir The Riverbones, about a year he spent studying capuchin monkeys in Suriname, in 2008. He is also a contributor to The Walrus, Explore, Outpost and The Globe and Mail. He won a Canadian National Magazine Award in 2007 for his Explore article "Somewhere Up a Jungle River", an article that grew into a book, The Riverbones.

In 2016, he published The Jungle South of the Mountain, his first novel.

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