The Winnipeg Free Press has called her "one of Canada's best loved writers of popular history and literary biography.
"[1] Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics,[2] Gray came to Canada in 1979.
[1] In 2004, Gray appeared on the CBC Television series The Greatest Canadian advocating for Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister.
[6] She is married to George Anderson, the president of an organization called the Forum of Federations, and former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada and before that of Intergovernmental Affairs.
[6] In 2016, the Literary Review of Canada listed Sisters in the Wilderness among the top 25 most influential Canadian books in the past 25 years.