Merrily Weisbord

Merrily Weisbord is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and journalist. Her books include Our Future Selves, The Strangest Dream, The Valour and the Horror—on Macleans best-seller list for six weeks—and Dogs with Jobs, from which Weisbord and her daughter Kim Kachanoff  created a hit TV series—5 seasons, major networks, sold to 57 countries. Her book The Love Queen of Malabar was a Finalist for the 2010 Writers Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize in Non-Fiction, and the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction.