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Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers, authoring nine best-selling books of literary non-fiction. She was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics before beginning her writing career as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist in England. After moving to Canada in 1979, she has worked as a political commentator, book reviewer, and magazine columnist, ultimately turning to biography and popular history. Her recent book, 'Massey Murder: A Maid, a Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country,' won several prestigious awards, including the Arthur Ellis Award for Non-Fiction Crime Book (2014-2015) and the Canadian Authors Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History. Gray has also published notable biographies, including a short biography of Nellie McClung as part of Penguin's Extraordinary Canadians Series and the bestseller 'Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell.' She served on the boards of the Ottawa International Authors Festival, the Art Canada Institute, and the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa, and is the chair of the board for Canada’s National History Society, which publishes 'Canada’s History' magazine. A member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Gray holds honorary doctorates from several universities and is a recipient of the Pierre Berton Award for her significant contributions to popularizing Canadian history.
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