KATE TAYLOR was born in France and raised in Ottawa. Her debut novel, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book (Canada/Caribbean region) and the Toronto Book Award. Her second novel, A Man in Uniform, was nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award. A recipient of the National Newspaper Award and the Atkinson Fellowship in public policy journalism, she also writes about the arts for The Globe and Mail, where she currently serves as lead film critic and writes a weekly column about culture. She lives in Toronto.