Betty Jane Wylie

as well as various fringe festivals; in New York (AMAS Repertory Theatre),[2] Minneapolis and Waterloo, Iowa, and in New Zealand, London, England, and South Africa.

In the course of her career, she has had 36 stage plays (and musicals) produced and published about 40 books of non-fiction, biography, belles letters, poetry and cooking.

Her first TV movie, Coming of Age (co-written with Donald Martin) won two Geminis (for best supporting actors) in 1995.

[3] She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe, has been named a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA, and given an Alumni Jubilee Award by the University of Manitoba where she received an honorary doctorate (D.Litt.)

[4][5] Wylie worked as a freelance journalist and columnist and published widely in the Canadian press and national magazines.