Geraldine Sherman's Curriculum
Vitae
Personal:
- Born Chatham, Ontario, 17 June 1941. Married, two children
Education:
- University of Toronto, Graduate Diploma in Town Planning, 1963
- McGill University, Honours BA Sociology and Anthropology, 1962
Employment:
- 1988 to present - freelance writer
Fiction & non-fiction: Saturday Night, Toronto Life,
Chatelaine,
Canadian Fiction Mag., Quill & Quire, The Idler, Globe & Mail,
Toronto Star
- 1966 to 1988 - executive producer
CBC Radio, State of the Arts, The Arts Report, Identities, and Ideas
- 1963 to 1966 - town planner
Faludi & Associates (Toronto); University of London
(England);
Department of Municipal Affairs (Ontario)
Task Force:
- Special Committee for the Arts, Ontario Department of Citizenship and
Culture;
co-vice-chair, 1983-1984
Jury Member:
- Department of External Affairs: Canada-Japan Literary Prize, 1992
- Literary Advisory Committee, 1984
- Prix Italia, Venice, 1979
Fellowship:
- Asia Pacific Foundation for travel/study in Japan, 1987
Boards:
- PEN Canada, 1994 to 1997. Benefit chair, 1996
- Energy Probe, 1992 to March, 1997
- Ontario College of Art, 1989 to 1993
Book Contribution:
- Beyond Imagination: Canadians Write About the Holocaust.
"The Murderer's Granddaughter" (McClelland & Stewart, 1995)
Book:
- Japan Diaries: A Travel Memoir (McArthur & Company, 1999)
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