
Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray is the author of 12 acclaimed books of history and biography, and a frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail, Literary Review of Canada, CBC, and The Wall Street Journal. Her biographies of Isabel Mackenzie King and Alexander Graham Bell were both finalists for Writers’ Trust nonfiction prizes. While at Berton House Writers’ Retreat, she researched and wrote Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, which was later adapted into a television miniseries. A member of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Gray lives in Ottawa, where she is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University.

Writers & Books
Award History
2006 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
forReluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell

1997 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
forMrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King

Juror History
Program History
2026 - Juror
Writers’ Trust Board Fellowship
2019 - Selector
Rising Stars
Selection
Author Selected
Works Recognized by WT


