Jane Barker Wright

Jane Barker Wright author of, The Understanding, was born in 1953 and educated in Ontario. While at Queen’s University, she fell in love with a metallurgical engineer and so has lived in Trail, B.C., Sydney, Australia, Tumbler Ridge, B.C. and Greymouth, New Zealand. Jane died in December 2014.

Her first novel, The Tasmanian Tiger, was published by Polestar Press in 1988. She has written a book column for Horticultural Magazine for many years. She died on December 1, 2014 at age 61.