CLAIRE MOWAT graduated from Ontario College of Art and worked as a graphic designer before she began writing. In the early 1960s, she and her husband, Farley Mowat, lived for five years in Newfoundland, in the village of Burgeo on the southwest shore. The Outport People, a bestselling memoir based on her experience living in Newfoundland, was her first book. She is also the author of The Girl From Away Trilogy for young adults. She and her husband divide their time between Port Hope, Ontario, and River Bourgeois in Cape Breton.