Janet McNaughton (born November 29, 1953) is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador.
[1] She wrote the coming of age novel, An Earthly Knight, published in 2003.
[2] She was born in Toronto, Ontario and stayed there for 26 years, moving to St. John's in 1979.
However, the writing helped her to identify her interest, a love for learning about people's lifestyles and thoughts in the past.
[2] McNaughton has been awarded the Violet Downey National Chapter of the IODE Book Award for the best Canadian English Language Children's Book, the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature in Atlantic Canada, and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.