Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, romancier, actor and broadcast journaliste who lives à Toronto, en Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at sur base de l'air force near Baden-Baden, West Germany. MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was also named to Oprah Winfrey s Book Club. She received the Governor general's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author s Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdémone (Good Morning Juliet). She also appeared in the film I've Heard the Sirènes Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others. Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, ce qui partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case. She also hosted the CBC Documentary series Life and Times from 1996 to 2007. MacDonald s wife is playwright and theatre directeur Alisa Palmer.