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Maggie Siggins was born and raised in Toronto. She worked as a writer, columnist, and television producer before moving to Regina in 1983 to teach journalism at the University of Regina. In 1985 she wrote A Canadian Tragedy, which tells the story of Colin Thatcher. It became the CBC movie Love and Hate. In 1992 she won a Governor General’s Award for Revenge of the Land, a non-fiction account of murder on the prairies that later became a motion picture. In 1995 she released a biography of Louis Riel entitled Riel: a Life of Revolution. She presently works as an author and journalist in Regina.

Bibliography

In Her Own Time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2000

Riel: a life of revolution. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1995

Revenge of the land. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.

A Canadian tragedy: Jo Ann and Colin Thatcher. Toronto: Macmillan, 1985.

Brian and the boys: a story of gang rape. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1984.

Basset: a biography. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1979.