Elspeth Cameron

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Elspeth MacGregor Cameron (born 1943) is a Canadian writer known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Hugh MacLennan, Irving Layton, Earle Birney, and Robertson Davies. She has also published a volume of poetry

Among the general public, Cameron is best known for her 1997 memoir No Previous Experience, documenting her confusion when, having previously identified as heterosexual, she began to develop a sexual and romantic attraction to historian Janice Dickin McGinnis.

She currently lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, where she teaches English literature at Brock University.

Works

  • Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life - 1981 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Robertson Davies
  • A Spider Danced A Cosy Jig - 1984
  • Irving Layton: A Portrait - 1985
  • Earle Birney: A Life - 1994
  • Great Dames - 1997
  • No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change - 1997

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