Priscilla Galloway, Ph.D, has been a full-time author since 1993. Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War II, won the major international Bologna Ragazzi award in 2000, the first Canadian book to do so. The Courtesan’s Daughter is shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson Award, 2004, and for the Manitoba Young Readers Award, 2005. Archers, Alchemists and Ninety-Eight Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed is on the Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year: 2004 Edition: (Special Interest – History):Other titles among her twenty-two books were nominated for the Canadian Library Association, Mr. Christie’s, and Red Cedar awards; eight were Our Choice selections.
Previously, Galloway taught in high-schools and universities and worked as a language arts consultant with children of all ages. She was honored as Teacher of the Year by the Ontario Council of Teachers of English. She is a past president of CANSCAIP (the Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers). Priscilla's eclectic career also includes operating a trailer park and managing an apartment building, not to mention a brief foray into cosmetic sales and a short stint as a cucumber farmer. Born in Montreal in 1930, Priscilla has lived, written, taught and scuba-dived from Pacific to Atlantic, from southern farming country to northern mines, from the Caribbean to New Zealand. Her home base is Toronto.
PUBLICATIONS:
La buona madre (Truly Grim Tales). Trans. Beatrice Visconti. Mondadori, 2003.
Lisa, Book One: Overland to Cariboo. Penguin Canada, OUR CANADIAN GIRL SERIES, 2003.
Archers, Alchemists and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed. Annick, 2003.
The Courtesan’s Daughter. Delacorte, 2002; Penguin Canada, 2003.
Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War II. editor. Stoddart, 1999.
AWARDS:
Nominated, Red Cedar Book Awards in both fiction and nonfiction categorie for Lisa, Book One: Overland to Cariboo and Archers, Alchemists and 98 Other Medieval Jobs, 2005-2006.
Finalist, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for The Courtesan’s Daughter, 2004.
"Quill & Quire", Bestseller List January for Archers, Alchemists and Ninety-Eight Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed, 2004.
Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year for Archers, Alchemists and Ninety-Eight Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed, 2004.
Bologna Ragazzi Award for Young Adult Non-Fiction for Too Young to Fight: Memories from Our Youth During World War II, 2000.
