Charlotte Gray (born 1948) is a British-born Canadian historian, biographer, journalist, and nonfiction writer whose work brings Canadian history to broad readerships through individual lives, institutions, and social change. The Governor General of Canada describes her as a historical biographer whose research has illuminated the roles of women including Susanna Moodie and Isabel Mackenzie King.
Gray’s books range from biography to narrative history. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill considers the two writers’ lives, while Mrs. King addresses Isabel Mackenzie King. Her Klondike history, Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, follows six people during the 1890s gold rush and later served as the basis for the Discovery Channel miniseries Klondike. Other books include The Massey Murder and The Promise of Canada.
Her official website identifies Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, published in 2023, as her latest book. Gray has been an Adjunct Research Professor in Carleton University’s Department of History since 2005, according to her site. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2007, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa in 2005, and won the Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History for Sisters in the Wilderness.
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