Budge Wilson

Author Budge Wilson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her many prizes include seventeen Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" Awards and the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Canadian Book Award. Her collection of short stories The Leaving was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association and was later included on the association's list of 75 Best Children's Books of the Last 25 Years. In 2004, she was made a member of the Order of Canada.