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Sandra Martin

Sandra Martin is the obituary columnist at the Globe and Mail. She has won the Atkinson and Canadian Journalism Fellowships and multiple National Magazine Awards. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed collection The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, and was also the co-editor of the annual Oberon Best Short Stories and Coming Attractions anthologies, and is the co-author of three books, including Rupert Brooke in Canada and Card Tricks: Bankers, Boomers, and the Explosion of Plastic Credit, which was shortlisted for the Canadian Business Book Award. A past president of PEN Canada, she lives in Toronto with her husband and her cat, Alice.

Books by Sandra Martin

A Good Death

Making the Most of Our Final Choices

by (author) Sandra Martin

Great Canadian Lives

A Cultural History of Modern Canada Through the Art of the Obit

by (author) Sandra Martin

The Art of the Obit

by (author) Sandra Martin

Working the Dead Beat

50 Lives that Changed Canada

by (author) Sandra Martin
foreword by William Thorsell

First Man In My Life, The

Daughters Write About Their Fathers

edited by Sandra Martin

The First Man in My Life

Daughters Write About Their Fathers

edited by Sandra Martin