Charlotte Gray (author)

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Charlotte Gray
Born (1948-01-03) January 3, 1948 (age 76)
Sheffield, England
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater Oxford University; London School of Economics
Occupation(s)Historian, author

Charlotte Gray, CM (born January 3, 1948) is a British-born Canadian historian and author. The Winnipeg Free Press has called her "one of Canada's best loved writers of popular history and literary biography." [1]

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Early life and education

Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, [2] Gray came to Canada in 1979. [3]

Career

She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for Saturday Night [4] 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 . [2]

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. [2] She was awarded the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography in 2002 and the Pierre Berton Prize for distinguished achievement in popularizing and promoting Canadian history in 2003. [2] 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. [1]

In 2004, Gray appeared on the CBC Television series The Greatest Canadian advocating for Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister. [5]

Personal life

Gray lives in New Edinburgh, a neighbourhood in Ottawa. [6] 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. [7] They have three sons. [6]

Awards and honours

In 2016, the Literary Review of Canada listed Sisters in the Wilderness among the top 25 most influential Canadian books in the past 25 years.

The Globe and Mail included Murdered Midas on their "The Globe 100: Books that shaped 2019" list. [8]

Awards for Gray's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
1997 Mrs. King Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Winner [9]
1998 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Winner [10]
2006Reluctant Genius Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist [9]
2014The Massey Murder RBC Taylor Prize for Literary NonfictionShortlist [11] [12]
Toronto Book Awards Winner [13]

Publications

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  4. ↑ Campbell, Joshua (July 14, 2011). "Making history come alive with Charlotte Gray". Moose Jaw Times-Herald . Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  5. ↑ Rector, Anne (October 28, 2010). "Society brings history to forefront". Belleville Intelligencer . Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Charlotte Gray". Quill & Quire. 11 September 2006. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "George Anderson". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  8. ↑ Cannon, Margaret; Canton, Jeffrey; Colbert, Jade; Rogers, Sean; Scott, Alec (2019-11-29). "The Globe 100: Books that shaped 2019". The Globe and Mail . Archived from the original on 2022-08-13. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  9. 1 2 "Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction". Writers' Trust of Canada. Archived from the original on July 3, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  10. ↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine 1998: Charlotte Gray, (retrieved 11/17/2012)
  11. ↑ "Awards: MWA Edgar Nominees; RBC Taylor Nonfiction". Shelf Awareness . 2014-01-17. Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  12. ↑ Williams, Leigh Anne (2014-03-11). "Thomas King Wins Canadian Nonfiction Prize". Publishers Weekly . Archived from the original on 2021-12-06. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  13. ↑ "Awards: Planeta; Toronto Book". Shelf Awareness . 2014-10-20. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
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