Born on the 27th November 1941 in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
BA 1962, University of New Brunswick; MA 1963, Harvard; PhD 1969 Cambridge.
Author of Truth and Consequences, Secker and Warburg, London, 1983
and Friends and Lovers, Heinemann, London, 1994.
Currently writing a life of her grandfather, the Canadian writer George Frederick Clarke.
This photograph was taken in 2007