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Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers, and author of ten acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Gray’s most recent bestseller is The Promise of Canada: People And Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country. Her previous book,  The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and The Trial that Shocked a Country, was also a bestseller and won the Toronto Book Award, the Heritage Toronto Book Award, the Canadian Authors Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book. It was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, the Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Evergreen Award and was long-listed for the B.C. National Book Award for Non-Fiction. An adaptation of her bestseller Gold Diggers, Striking It Rich in the Klondike was broadcast as a television miniseries in early 2014 on the US Discovery Channel, under the title Klondike.

An Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Charlotte is the Recipient of the Pierre Berton Award for distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history. She has chaired the boards of both Canada’s National History Society and the Art Canada Institute, has served on the boards of PEN Canada and the Ottawa International Writers Festival. She has frequently served on Writers Trust committees, as well as being a juror for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the RBC Taylor Prize, the City of Ottawa Book Prize, several CBC awards and the Kobzar Literary Award. Charlotte is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Books by Charlotte Gray

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons

The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Murdered Midas

A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise

by (author) Charlotte Gray

The Promise of Canada

People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

by (author) Charlotte Gray

The Promise of Canada

150 Years--People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Canada Day 2016 Preview

The Promise of Canada

by (author) Charlotte Gray

The Massey Murder

by (author) Charlotte Gray

The Massey Murder

A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Extraordinary Canadians Nellie McClung

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Gold Diggers

Striking It Rich in the Klondike

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Flint And Feather

The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Reluctant Genius

The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Mrs. King

The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Way of a Boy

A Memoir Of Java

by (author) Ernest Hillen
foreword by Charlotte Gray

Reluctant Genius

by (author) Charlotte Gray

The Battles of the War of 1812

Adventures in Canadian History

by (author) Pierre Berton
foreword by Charlotte Gray

Roughing It In The Bush Penguin Black Classics Edition

by (author) Susanna Moodie
foreword by Charlotte Gray

Canada: A Portrait in Letters, 1800-2000

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Flint And Feather

by (author) Charlotte Gray

Sisters In The Wilderness

The Lives Of Susanna Moodie And Catharine Parr Traill

by (author) Charlotte Gray