Hugh Brewster
BIO
Biography

 

Hugh Brewster has written 15 books for young readers and adults beginning with Anastasia’s Album (1996) which won both the Silver Birch and Red Cedar Awards. On Juno Beach won the Information Book Award in 2005 and At Vimy Ridge was a Norma Fleck Award winner in 2008.  Other titles include Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, a Governor General’s Award nominee in 1998 and an adult book RMS TITANIC: Gilded Lives on a Fatal Voyage which was a national bestseller and published in six countries in 2012. From Vimy to Victory: Canada’s Fight to the Finish in World War 1 was a finalist for the Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2015. His latest book, Unsinkable Lucile: How a Farm Girl Became the Queen of Fashion and Survived the Titanic was published in Fall 2022.

ADDRESS
City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Unsinkable Lucile: How A Farm Girl Became the Queen of Fashion and Survived the Titanic
Publisher
Firefly
Year
2022
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