 For the CBC, Drainie Taylor acted in a number of radio and television productions, including "Jake and the Kid", "John and Judy" and "Barney Boomer"; she also wrote radio plays, including "Santa Had a Black, Black Beard" and "Flow Gently Sweet Limbo".She published an autobiography, "The Surprise of My Life", in 1998.Also that year, she created the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, a literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the year's best biographical work by a Canadian writer.