ELSPETH CAMERON is the author of three award-winning biographies: HUGH MACLENNAN: A WRITER'S LIFE (1981); IRVING LAYTON: A PORTRAIT (1985); and EARLE BIRNEY: A LIFE (1994). She has taught English and Canadian Studies at Concordia University, The University of Toronto since 1970. She has been teaching at Brock University since 2002. Professor Cameron has been a guest lecturer in many countries around the world. Her journalistic profiles have won several awards. She has edited the texts for both the Canadian Studies courses she currently teaches at Brock: CANADIAN CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTORY READER (1997) and MULTICULTURALISM AND IMMIGRATION IN CANADA: AN INTRODUCTORY READER (2004).