Joan Givner (born in Manchester, England)[1] is an essayist, biographer, and novelist,[2] known for her biographies of women, short stories, and the Ellen Fremendon series of novels for younger readers that was finalist for the Silver Birch Awards, the 2006 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for Ellen Fremedon,[3] and the Diamond Willow Awards.
[1] She remained on the faculty until she retired in 1995 to settle in British Columbia and take up full-time writing.
In 1978-1979 Givner was Fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University.
[5] In 1989 and 1990 she was a Member of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council adjudication committee, and in 1991, Chair of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council adjudication committee.
Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory (USA 1986) directed by Ken Harrison, produced by KERA Dallas, and starring Dina Chandel, Eleanor Clark, and Joan Givner as herself.