Scott Alexander Young was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, and novelist. Over his career, Scott Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.
Scott was born in 1918. Son of Percy Young Jean Patterson. Father of musician Neal Young (of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Bob Young, and Astrid Young.
Scott was born in Cypress River, Manitoba, but grew up in nearby Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada. His father owned a drug store here. In 1926, their family was living in Macdonald, Manitoba.[1] After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg. His parents separated in 1930 and he went to live with his uncle in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan for a year and then returned to Winnipeg to live with his mother. He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and began working for a tobacco wholesaler.
He began writing as a teenager. He submitted stories to various publishers, most of which were rejected. At the age of 18 he was hired as a copyboy at the Winnipeg Free Press and soon made sports writer. He met Edna Blow "Rassy" Ragland in 1937. They married in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 18 June 1940.[2]
Unable to get a raise while working at the Free Press, he moved to Toronto in 1941. There he was covering news stories and sports for the Canadian Press news agency. In 1942 they had a son, Bob Young. Also in 1942 he was sent to England to cover World War II for the Canadian Press. Later that year he joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves, where he served as a Communications Officer up until the end of the war in 1945. In 1945, they had another son, Neil Young.
Father, Scott Young began to sell fiction novels to publications in Canada and the United States, including the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. He quit his job at Maclean's in 1948 to write short stories full-time.
In 1949 he bought a house in Omemee, Ontario. His first novel was, The Flood which was published in 1956. He moved to Pickering, Ontario and worked in public relations for a jet engine company before joining, The Globe and Mail as a daily columnist in 1957.
He met Astrid Mead in 1959 while on assignment in British Columbia. In 1960 he and his wife Edna separated. In 1961, he married Astrid Mead. They had a daughter, in 1962 and named her Astrid Young.
Scott received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988 & was also inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1990, Young received an honorary doctorate from Trent University and donated many of his papers to the university's archives. Scott Young Public School in Omemee, Ontario was named in his honor in 1993. His autobiography, A Writer's Life, was published in 1994. He was also host on Hockey Night in Canada until getting on the wrong side of the Toronto Maple Leafs co-owner John Bassett. The Leafs threatened HNIC's sponsor and advertising agency until they agreed to fire Young.[3]
He also wrote the books, "The Shaman's Knife", "The Flood", "Murder In Cold Climate", and "Neil And Me" in 1984, a book he co-authored with his son. Young was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a journalist in 1988. He passed away at his home in Kingston, Ontario, at the age of 87.
He died, at the age of 87, on 12 June 2005 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada; he was buried at the Emily Presbyterian Cemetery, Emily, Kawartha Lakes Municipality, Ontario, Canada.[4]
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