Christina McCall (29 January 193527 April 2005) was a Canadian political writer.

Biography

Christina McCall was born on 29 January 1935 in

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, to Orlie Alma (Freeman) and Christopher Warnock McCall. She studied English language and literature at Victoria University, Toronto, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1956. She then spent the next 20 years as a journalist at ''

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'', '' Saturday Night'' and ''

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'' and as a senior editor at ''

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'', as a senior political writer and author. She later worked with, and eventually married (in 1959 and separated before 1977),

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. She focused on book writing in the 1980s. She had done much writing about the late

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, and published a two volume book entitled ''Trudeau and Our Times'' which she co-authored with then husband

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(m. 1978). The first volume, ''The Magnificent Obsession'', won a 1990

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. She died on 27 April 2005 at the Providence Healthcare Centre after a long illness. She was survived by Clarkson and three children—Ashley McCall, her daughter with Newman, and Kyra Clarkson and Blaise Clarkson, Clarkson's children from his first marriage to

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Bibliography

*''Grits: An Intimate Portrait of the Liberal Party'' – 1982 *''Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 1: The Magnificent Obsession'' – 1990 (with

) *''Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 2: The Heroic Delusion'' – 1994 (with

) *''My Life as a Dame: the personal and the political in the writings of Christina McCall'' – 2008 (ed.

)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCall, Christina 1935 births 2005 deaths Canadian newspaper journalists Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers University of Toronto alumni Canadian women journalists Maclean's writers and editors Canadian political journalists Women political writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Canadian women columnists