Christina McCall

Christina McCall
Born	(1935-01-29)29 January 1935 Toronto,Ontario
Died	27 April 2005(2005-04-27)(aged 70) Scarborough, Toronto,Ontario
Occupation	Writer, journalist
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Subject	Canadian politics
Notable works	The Magnificent Obsession
Notable awards	Governor General's Award
Spouses	Peter C. Newman ​ ​ (m.1959, divorced)​ Stephen Clarkson ​ (m.1978)​

Christina McCall(29 January 1935 – 27 April 2005) was a Canadian political writer.

Biography

Christina McCall was born on 29 January 1935 inToronto,Ontario,to Orlie Alma (Freeman) and Christopher Warnock McCall.She studied English language and literature atVictoria University, Toronto,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1956.She then spent the next 20 years as a journalist atThe Globe and Mail,Saturday NightandMaclean'sand as a senior editor atChatelaine,as a senior political writer and author. She later worked with, and eventually married (in 1959 and separated before 1977),Peter C. Newman.She focused on book writing in the 1980s. She had done much writing about the latePrime Minister of CanadaPierre Trudeau,and published a two volume book entitledTrudeau and Our Timeswhich she co-authored with then husbandStephen Clarkson(m. 1978). The first volume,The Magnificent Obsession,won a 1990Governor General's Award.

She died on 27 April 2005 at theProvidence Healthcare Centreafter a long illness.She was survived by Clarkson and three children—Ashley McCall, her daughter with Newman, andKyra Clarkson and Blaise Clarkson,Clarkson's children from his first marriage toAdrienne Clarkson.

Bibliography

• Grits: An Intimate Portrait of the Liberal Party– 1982
• Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 1: The Magnificent Obsession– 1990 (withStephen Clarkson)
• Trudeau and Our Times, Volume 2: The Heroic Delusion– 1994 (withStephen Clarkson)
• My Life as a Dame: the personal and the political in the writings of Christina McCall– 2008 (ed.Stephen Clarkson)