In this “Conversation between two storytellers,” who are also two friends, Charlotte Gray, the author of twelve best-selling books of (mostly) Canadian popular history, including The Massey Murder: A Maid, her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Country, and Maureen Jennings, author of the Murdoch Mysteries books on which the popular television series is based, as well as three other series featuring fictional detectives or criminal profilers, each set in a different historical era, will discuss their respective approaches to storytelling, the advantages and disadvantages of the fiction and non-fiction genres, how they select the subjects of their books and conduct their research, and whatever else may come up! An audience Q&A session will follow their discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Historical Education, www.CIHE.ca. BIOGRAPHIES Charlotte Gray is a non-fiction author based in Ottawa who has written twelve bestsellers of biography and popular history. Her most recent book is Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt. She is also the author of Sisters in the Wilderness; the Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, The Massey Murder and Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention. Charlotte has served as chair of Canada’s National History Society, and has won the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history. She has also chaired the Art Canada Institute board and is vice-president of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa. Born in England and a graduate of Oxford and the LSE, Charlotte teaches at Carleton University, holds five honorary degrees, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada. Crime fiction writer Maureen Jennings was born in the UK and now lives in Toronto. She has four ongoing book series, each set in a different era. The first with Detective William Murdoch, is set in late Victorian Toronto. These books were adapted for television and MURDOCH MYSTERIES, now in its eighteenth season, is shown in over one hundred territories around the world. Her second series features Christine Morris, a contemporary British criminal profiler, and a third, with Detective Tom Tyler, is set in Britain during World War Two. Her most recent series returns to pre-war Toronto in the 1930s: THE PARADISE CAFÉ series features a female Private Investigator named Charlotte Frayne. In 2024 she was awarded the Grand Master award by Crime Writers of Canada. And in 2024 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.