Margaret Laurence, anxious about my introduction, and Catherine focusing on her balloon, on the podium during the Authors at Harbourfront series.
Margaret Laurence, anxious about my introduction, and Catherine focusing on her balloon, on the podium during the Authors at Harbourfront series.
Barbara Frum at the CBC, interviewing someone for As It Happens.
A young Conrad Black (left) sharing a laugh with Prime Minister Joe Clark.
The redoubtable journalist and advocate Doris Anderson in her office at Chatelaine.
Peter Worthington’s election button. He ran for the Conservatives in the 1984 general election.
Michael de Pencier, John Honderich, Peter Gzowski, and Honor de Pencier at a Peter Gzowski Annual Invitational (PGI) golf tournament in the 1990s.
With McClelland & Stewart president Linda McKnight (left) and literary agents Bella Pomer and Lucinda Vardey (right).
With Lorraine Durham (left) and Annabel Slaight in the makeshift Key Porter booth at a Canadian booksellers’ convention.
My close friend and renowned photographer Dudley Witney, in 1995.
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and writer David Wood at the launch of The Lougheed Legacy.
The irrepressible Gloria Goodman with a larger-than-life picture of me at the launch of my second novel, Mortal Sins.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney holds a copy of Ontario, our big sesquicentennial book, in 1984.
Jean Chrétien at the podium in our home celebrating the English language publication of his soon-to-be mega bestseller, Straight from the Heart.
Journalist Allan Fotheringham at a cover shoot for his book Birds of a Feather, published by Key Porter in 1989. The bird kept nipping at his ear during the shoot, but we got this great photo out of it—and it was hilarious to watch.
Jack McClelland announcing the sale of McClelland & Stewart to Avie Bennett (right) in 1985.
Author and photographer Fred Bruemmer, whose books and images form a lasting legacy of the Arctic.
Filmmaker Norman Jewison at one of our dinner parties, with Margaret Atwood in the background.
Author Basil Johnston at the Native Arts Festival in Owen Sound, 2005.
My friend, the multi-talented, urbane CBC producer, brilliant writer, and all around wit, George Jonas.
The unstoppable journalist, author, and activist June Callwood.
With Scott McIntyre of Douglas & McIntyre at a Giller Prize gala.
With Peter Munk at the launch of Kasztner’s Train.
With my dear friend Jack Rabinovitch at a Giller Prize gala.
In Budapest in 2005, when I was visiting as part of a CBC documentary commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.