Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known biographers and writers of popular history. Author of 11 acclaimed books of literary non-fiction, her most recent best-seller is Murdered Midas. Her ability to provide original and intriguing entry points into Canadian history has earned her a large and faithful readership, and regular requests to appear on television and radio. She was the celebrity advocate for Sir John A. Macdonald on CBC’s “Who is the Greatest Canadian?”

Her other award-winning books include The Promise of Canada: People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country; The Massey Murder; Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention; and Gold Diggers, Striking It Rich in the Klondike. Gold Diggers was the basis of both a U.S. Discovery Channel docudrama and a PBS documentary.

Sisters in the Wilderness, published in 1999, was named as one of the 25 most influential Canadian books of the past 25 years by the Literary Review of Canada.

Ms. Gray has chaired the boards of both Canada’s National History Society and the Art Canada Institute, has been a board member of PEN Canada and the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and has been a juror for the International Cundill History prize, Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the RBC Taylor Prize.

Born in the United Kingdom, Ms. Gray came to Canada in 1978. An adjunct research professor at Carleton University, in Ottawa, she holds five honorary degrees and is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.