Gillian Chan (born 1954) is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
children's author who lives in
Dundas, Ontario.
She was educated at
Orange Hill Grammar School and the
University of East Anglia (BEd, 1980).
Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Mei-ling's during the Christmas week a year or so after the original diary ended for the Christmas treasury from the
Dear Canada series, ''A Season for Miracles: Twelve Tales of Christmas.''
On October 27, 2006, Chan competed on the television show ''
Jeopardy!'', finishing in last place.
Works
*''Golden Girl and Other Stories'' - 1994
*''
Glory Days and Other Stories ''Glory Days and Other Stories'' by Gillian Chan is a collection of five interlinked short stories first published in 1996 by Kids Can Press. It is the sequel of ''Golden Girl and Other Stories'' which is set in the same high school. ''Glory Days an ...
'' - 1996 (Nominated for a
Governor General's Award)
*''The Carved Box'' - 2001
*''A Foreign Field'' - 2002
*''An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-ling (
Dear Canada)'' - 2004
*''The Turning'' - 2005
*''I Am Canada: A Call to Battle'' - 2012
References
1954 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Canadian children's writers
People from Dundas, Ontario
Writers from Hamilton, Ontario
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