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Welcome to the website of Charlotte Gray, award-winning author of twelve books of history and biography. One of Canada’s best known non-fiction writers, Charlotte’s latest bestseller is Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt, published simultaneously in Canada, U.S. and Britain. Previous bestsellers include The Promise of Canada; The Massey Murder; Reluctant Genius (a biography of Alexander Graham Bell) and Sisters in the Wilderness, The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Gold Diggers, her extraordinary account of the 1890s Yukon Gold Rush, was the basis of the Discovery Channel’s mini-series, “Klondike.” With an international reputation as an author and public speaker, Charlotte explores the past with wit and a sense of drama.

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A New Take on Mothers in History!

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons; The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt is a double biography of two strong-willed women, both born in New York in 1854, whose sons would help shape the world we live in. It was published simultaneously in Canada, U.K. and U.S., in September 2023.

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons appeared in both the Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2023, and the Toronto Star’s “definitive 2023 book gift guide.” The Wall Street Journal included it in its Holiday Gift Books section as one of the ten top biographies of 2023.

Watch Charlotte’s launch of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons at Ottawa’s Library and Archives: a fascinating slide show, and then a lively conversation with CBC’s Alan Neal

See what history books by women Charlotte recommends.

Listen to Charlotte bring interviewed on several US podcasts

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