Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known and highly respected non-fiction writers. Her most recent book is "Nellie McClung", a short biography of Canada’s leading women’s rights activist in the Penguin Series, Extraordinary Canadians. Her 2006 bestseller, "Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell", won the Donald Creighton Award for Ontario History.

Her previous five books, which include "Sisters in the Wilderness", "The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill", "Flint & Feather", "The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson" and "A Museum Called Canada", were all award-winning bestsellers.

An Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, she is the 2003 Recipient of the Pierre Berton Award for distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history, and vice-chair of the board of the Canadian National History Society.