Helen McLean (1927 – February 7, 2017) was a Canadian author and painter, known for her autobiographical Details From a Larger Canvas.
[1] She wrote two autobiographical books, Sketching from Memory: A Portrait of My Mother (1994) and Details from a Larger Canvas (2001).
[5] McLean's 2003 novel Significant Things was short-listed for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award, Caribbean and Canada Region.
[9][1] They are held in private and corporate collections that include the Bank of Canada in Ottawa.
McLean published articles, essays and reviews in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Brick, Quill & Quire, Books in Canada, the Literary Review of Canada, Room of One's Own and Ars Medica.