Charlotte Gray

CHARLOTTE GRAY is one of the country’s most popular writers of Canadian history. Gray is the author of twelve bestselling and award-winning non-fiction books, including Sisters in the Wilderness, Flint and Feather, and A Museum Called Canada. The Promise of Canada became a major bestseller and won the Ottawa Book Award. The Massey Murder won the Toronto Book Award and the Toronto Heritage Book Award, was longlisted for the B.C. Non-fiction Award, and was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Award, the Ottawa Award for Non-Fiction, and the Evergreen Award. Her bestseller Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike was adapted into the television miniseries Klondike. Reluctant Genius was a bestseller, won the Donald Creighton Award for Ontario History and the City of Ottawa Book Award, and was nominated for the National Business Book Award and the Trillium Award. Gray is a member of the Order of Canada, a Library and Archives Canada Scholar, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She lives in Ottawa, where she is Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.