Launch for And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle by Elspeth Cameron

Join Cormorant Books and David Mirvish Books for Sunday tea to celebrate the launch of And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle by Elspeth Cameron. To reserve a copy of And Beauty Answers, please call 416.531.9975. Elspeth Cameron will be present to sign and discuss her book.

About the book:
All but forgotten, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle were major forces in establishing Canadian sculpture and the style of Canadian national monuments. And Beauty Answers by Elspeth Cameron reexamines their careers, from their early days struggling to be recognized in a man’s profession, to their final days in separate rooms of a nursing home. Whatever the full extent of their relationship, the Girls continue to be defined as much by the bond they shared as by the works they created. And Beauty Answers explores a partnership that helped shape the landscape of Canadian art.

Elspeth Cameron is the author of three award-winning biographies: Hugh MacLennan: A Writer’s Life (1981), Irving Layton: A Portrait (1985), and Earle Birney: A Life (1994). Her 1997 memoir No Previous Experience won the W.O.Mitchell Literary Prize. She was also the recipient of the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography in 1981 and the City of Vancouver Book Award in 1995. She has taught English and Canadian Studies at Concordia University and the University of Toronto, and is currently a professor in the English Language and Literature Department at Brock University.