won the 1998 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King. Sisters in the Wilderness, listed among the "Top 25" in the past 25 years, Literary Review of Canada: the 25 most influential Canadian books, 2016 References External links Author site HarperCollins Canada site 1948 births Canadian women historians Living people English emigrants to Canada Alumni of the London School of Economics Carleton University alumni Members of the Order of Canada Writers from Ottawa