Mary-Ann Kirkby

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Mary-Ann Kirkby
NationalityCanadian
OccupationAuthor
Notable workI Am Hutterite
Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen

Mary-Ann Kirkby (born 1959) is a Canadian author who has written two memoirs about her upbringing in the Hutterite tradition.

Contents

Early life

Kirkby was born on a Hutterite colony in Manitoba to Ronald and Mary Dornn. [1] Her family left the colony in 1969 when Kirkby was ten years old due to a conflict between Kirkby's father and the colony's head minister. [2] Kirkby studied broadcast journalism in college, eventually becoming a television reporter and singer. [3]

Books

Kirkby has written two books about her Hutterite upbringing. I Am Hutterite was originally self-published in 2007, earning enough commercial and critical success to lead to a 2010 re-release by publishers Key Porter Books in Canada and Thomas Nelson in the United States. [4] [5] [6] The follow-up, Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen, was published in 2014. [7] Kirkby won the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-fiction [8] and the Gold Prize for Best Culinary Narrative at the 2015 Taste Canada Food Writing Awards. [9] Kirkby has also co-written a children's book entitled Make a Rabbit, which she self-published in 2010. [10]

Personal life

She is married to Gordon Kirkby, a politician. [3]

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