Charlotte Gray Books In Order

Publication Order of People Who Have Helped the World Books

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Charlotte Gray is a Canadian author. She is one of the most well known writers in Canada and has written several books of literary nonfiction.

Charlotte was born January 3, 1948 in Sheffield, England. She attended Oxford University and then went on to the London School of Economics. There she started a writing career in England working as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist. She came to Canada in 1979 and found work as a political commentator, a book reviewer, and a magazine columnist before turning to biography and popular history.

Gray has written several books, including Gold Diggers, Nellie McClung, and Reluctant Genius. Reluctant Genius was the winner of the Donald Creighton Award for Ontario History as well as the City of Ottawa Book Award. It was also nominated for several awards, including the National Business Book Award, the Nereus Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and the Trillium Award. She has also had other books that won awards and were bestsellers, such as Sisters in the Wilderness.

She makes regular appearances on radio and television serving as a political and cultural commentator. She was an advocate in 2004 for Canada’s first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald for the CBC series The Greatest Canadian. Gray has also been a judge on several literary prizes, such as the Charles Taylor Prize for Non-fiction, the Giller Prize for Fiction, and the Shaunessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

The author has also received five honorary doctorates, from Mount St. Vincent University, Nova Scotia, the University of Ottawa, Queen’s University, York University, and Carleton University. She is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University in the Department of History. Gray also received the Pierre Berton Award in 2003 for distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history.

Charlotte Gray is also a former chair of the board on the National History Society of Canada. They publish the magazine Canada’s History. She also sits on the boards of the Ottawa International Authors Festival, the Art Canada Institute, and the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa. She belongs to the Order of Canada and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

The author is married to her husband George Anderson. They have three sons and reside in Ottawa together.

The Promise of Canada: 150 Years– People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country is a 2016 novel by Charlotte Gray. If you want to find out what it means to be Canadian and what ideas have changed the country, check out a copy of this book as Gray goes over 150 years of Canadian history.

In this book, Gray brings together masterful portraits of nine different influential Canadians, putting together a unique country history that covers the past century and a half. From Emily Carr to Elijah Harper to Tommy Douglas and Margaret Atwood, each of them have left a mark on Canada.

The author avoids a top down approach to Canadian history and has instead selected people who have had ideas that have caught her imagination and have put out ideas that have become part of the collective conversation.

Gray also highlights the many different Canadians from the present and the past who have added to an ongoing debate about how people see themselves. She argues that Canada has persistently re-imagined itself in each generation since 1867.

This fresh take on Canadian history has beautiful black and white images as well as colorful artistic visions of the country. This book offers fascinating insights into how we’ve matured and how they are still a people in progress, bringing history to life along the way. Check out this book and see what you think!

Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death On an Island Paradise is a 2019 book from Charlotte Gray. This is the story of Sir Harry Oakes, a story that involves an island paradise, a millionaire, a gold mine, unsolved murder, and a missing fortune.

On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes was murdered. He was a gold mining tycoon, a philanthropist, and was known as the richest man in the Empire.

The news of his death was brought all over the English-speaking world, traveling from London to places such as Kirkland Lake, a Canadian mining town in the Northern Ontario Bush. The murder was news-worthy and became known as the crime of the century fairly quickly.

Things got even more mysterious as Oakes’ son-in-law’s involvement came to be questioned. Besides Count Alfred de Marigny coming under fire, the Governor of the Bahamas did as well, the former King Edward VII.

Even though there was a trial, no killer was ever convicted. Rumors spread about the Oakes’ missing fortune, and the fascination with this story has continued on decades, long after it originally occurred.

In this book, Charlotte Gray looks into the life of this man behind the scandal. He was a man who was reviled and admired. She also brings a fresh look at the bungled investigation and the subsequent trial held in the remote colonial island streets, while also proposing a suspect who has been overlooked in this cold case. The story of the man behind these headlines who never got justice unfolds in Murdered Midas, a fascinating book from Charlotte Gray that nonfiction fans will not want to miss!