Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers and biographers, and the author of several bestsellers, including Reluctant Genius: The Passions and Inventions of Alexander Graham Bell, Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King, and Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Her latest book is the biography Nellie McLung, part of Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadians series.

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