Charlotte Gray (author)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charlotte Gray (born 1948) is a Canadian historian and author.

Born in England and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Gray came to Canada in 1979. She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for Saturday Night and appearing regularly on radio and television discussion panels. She has also written for Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen.

Gray is an adjunct research professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, and holds honorary degrees from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, the University of Ottawa and Queen's University. In 2003, she was awarded the UBC Medal for Biography, and the Pierre Berton Prize for distinguished achievement in popularizing and promoting Canadian history. She has won or been nominated for most of the major non-fiction awards in Canada. In 2004 she served on the jury for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2007, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

In 2004, Gray appeared on the CBC Television series The Greatest Canadian advocating for Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister.

Gray lives in New Edinburgh, a community in Ottawa. She is married to George Anderson, the president of an organization called the Forum of Federations, and former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada and before that of Intergovernmental Affairs. They have three sons.

[edit] Bibliography

Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King 1997
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill 1999
Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake 2002
Canada, A Portrait in Letters 2003
The Museum Called Canada 2004
Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell 2006