Christie Lucy Harris, CM (November 21, 1907 – January 5, 2002)[2] was a Canadian children's writer.
[3] Harris was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 21, 1907, and moved to British Columbia, Canada, with her family as a child.
[1] She was led to investigate Northwest Coast cultures after moving to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in 1958 and writing a series of CBC dramas on First Nations topics.
applies the "ancient astronaut" theories of Erich von Däniken to Northwest Coast oral histories.
[7] Harris won the annual Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award both in 1967 for The Raven's Cry and in 1977 for Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses[8] (another collaboration with Tait).