Wartime Mothers and Allies
Lakefield College School Bryan Jones Theatre
Sat. July 20 @ 7:00 pm
Guests: Tim Cook, author of Lifesavers and Body Snatchers and the upcoming book, The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War, and Charlotte Gray, author of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt.
Moderator: Doug Saunders
Charlotte Gray and Tim Cook will read from their recent books and share what they discovered about the people and the historical time that inspired them.
Tim Cook
Tim Cook is Canada’s leading military historian, author of several definitive modern studies of the country’s experience in the two world wars of the 20th century. His many awards include the Charles Taylor Award for Literary for Shock Troops, and the J.W. Dafoe Prize twice for two other books focussing on Canada’s role in the Great War. In Lakefield Tim will be discussing his upcoming book on the Second World War, The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War.
A member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada, Tim lives in Ottawa, where he works as Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum.
Charlotte Gray
One of Canada’s best-known non-fiction writers, Charlotte Gray is also a long-time friend of the Lakefield Literary Festival. Her latest bestseller is Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, which was published simultaneously in Canada, U.S. and Britain. Among the 12 books of history and biography Charlotte has written are Reluctant Genius, a biography of Alexander Graham Bell, and the story of our own village’s famous literary pioneers, Sisters in the Wilderness, The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill.
Charlotte joins us from her home in Ottawa.
Doug Saunders
Toronto’s Doug Saunders is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail and author of three books: Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, and Maximum Canada. A former European bureau chief for The Globe, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including five National Newspaper Awards, the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory, the Donner Prize and the National Library of China Wenjin Book Award.