Ottawa author Charlotte Gray wins the 2014 Toronto Book Award
It has been a good year for the Massey Murder (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/stephen-weir/charlotte-grays-true-toro_b_6004036.html#es_share_ended) Ottawa author Charlotte Gray is the winner of the 2014 Toronto Book Award for her non-fiction book, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country. She is 40th author to capture Toronto's annual literature prize. Gray $10,000 win was announced at last night's award ceremony, held at the downtown Toronto Reference Library. "I offer my warm congratulations to Charlotte Gray , who has drawn an unforgettable portrait of Toronto's social life at the beginning of the 20 th century," said Acting City Librarian Anne Bailey . "In telling the true story of Carrie Davies , the maid who shot a (famed) Massey , Charlotte Gray captures the class conflict and societal upheaval that marked our city's reinvention of itself at the onset of the Great War. As the author no