Sheila Craig Waengler is the daughter of James H. Craig, architect, and Grace Morris Craig, artist and author, and widow of Ernst G. Waengler, writer and foreign correspondent for the Neue Zurcher Zeitung. After following in her mother's footsteps by attending Branksome Hall, an all-girls school in Toronto, Sheila enrolled at University College, U of T, where she studied Fine Arts and Archeology. After university Sheila attended Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, where she spent two years in the Opera School as a mezzo-soprano. Now in her 96th year, Sheila has written her memoir from 1930-1953.