Janet Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas on December 28, 1928. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her first book, Double Spell, was published in 1968. Her other books include The Root Cellar, Come to the Fair, and Shadow in Hawthorn Bay. The Hollow Tree received the Governor General's Literary Award in 1998 and The Story of Canada written with Christopher Moore received a Mr. Christie's Book Award in 1993. She also received the Canadian Authors Association's Vicki Metcalf Award for Body of Work and The Writer's Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award in Celebration of a Writing Life. She died on June 26, 2017 at the age of 88.
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