Budge Marjorie Wilson CM ONS (née Archibald; May 2, 1927 – March 19, 2021) was a Canadian writer.
[1] Wilson studied philosophy and psychology at Dalhousie University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1949.
[1] Wilson's first job was as a teacher of English and art at Halifax Ladies’ College for one year starting in 1951.
After stints at the Toronto Public Library and Acadia University nursing school, Wilson went back to teaching in 1968.
[1] She recounted that writing during the six-year interval was a challenge, describing how she was "getting pretty discouraged" by the fifth year.
[4] It became the largest-ever foreign rights sale for Penguin Canada,[2] and was eventually adapted into an animated series in Japan titled Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables.
[3] One year later, Wilson received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
[11] After living in Peterborough, Ontario, for 33 years,[1] Wilson and her husband went back to Nova Scotia in 1989 and resided in Northwest Cove on St. Margarets Bay.