Sarah, Duchess of York January 1988, during the trip to New York to attend a fundraising event, the Duchess was attacked by a young man at the entrance of her hotel. The man, who was screaming "murderers 3/8" and had the Irish Republican Army flag in his hands when he rushed at Sarah, was "charged with attempted assault on the Duchess and assault on a federal agent". Later a State Department press officer stated that "she was unharmed in the incident". In March 1988, the Duke and Duchess of York visited California. The trip was described by two British newspapers as a "brash, vulgar,
Will Ferguson 2002, then for "Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw" in 2005 and for his travel memoir "Beyond Belfast" in 2010. Ferguson won the 2012 Giller Prize for "419: A Novel" (2012). The novel went on to win the 2013 Libris Award from the Canadian Booksellers Association for Fiction Book of the Year. He also served on the jury of the 2015 Hilary Weston Prize for literary nonfiction. Ferguson championed "Sarah Binks" by Paul Hiebert in "Canada Reads 2003". Will Ferguson William Stener "Will" Ferguson (born October 12, 1964) is a Canadian travel writer and novelist best known for his humorous observations