Rosemary Sullivan is the celebrated author of seventeen books including biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue and short fiction. She is best known for her biography Stalin’s Daughter (HarperCollins, 2015), which was published in 23 countries and won the RBC Taylor Prize, the B.C. National Non-Fiction Prize, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award, and was a finalist for the PEN / Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Her book Villa Air-Bel (HarperCollins, 2006) was awarded the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and has lectured in Canada, the US, Europe, India and Latin America. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. She lives in East York, Ontario.