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Charlotte
Gray

Charlotte Gray is the author of 10 works of literary nonfiction and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her biographies of Isabel Mackenzie King and Alexander Graham Bell were both finalists for Writers’ Trust nonfiction prizes. While at the Berton House Writers’ Retreat, Gray researched and wrote her history of the Klondike Gold Rush, Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, which was later adapted into a television miniseries. This fall she will publish Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise. Gray lives in Ottawa.

Award History

2006 Finalist

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell

1997 Finalist

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King

Program History

2019 Selector

Rising Stars

Selection

Writer in Residence

Berton House Writers’ Residency

Works recognized by WT

Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King

Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell