Elspeth Cameron

Elspeth MacGregor Cameron (born 10 January 1943) is a Canadian writer best known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Irving Layton and Earle Birney. She is also noted for her 1997 memoir No Previous Experience, a memoir of her process of self-discovery when, having previously identified as heterosexual, she began to develop a sexual and romantic attraction to historian Janice Dickin McGinnis.^[1] She has also published a volume of poetry.

Elspeth Cameron
Born	(1943-01-10) 10 January 1943 (age 82)
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation(s)	Writer, poet
Known for	biographies

She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario. Cameron has taught at Concordia University, the University of Toronto and Brock University.

Awards

Her biography of Hugh MacLennan, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life, was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards.^[2] No Previous Experience won the W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize.^[3]

Bibliography

• Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life (1981)
• A Spider Danced A Cosy Jig (1984)
• Irving Layton: A Portrait (1985)
• Robertson Davies: An Appreciation (1991)
• Earle Birney: A Life (1994)
• Great Dames (1997)
• No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change (1997)
• And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle (2007)
• Aunt Winnie (2013)