Christopher Dafoe was born in Winnipeg in 1936 and was educated in Winnipeg and later at Stanford University and in England. He was for many years a theatre, film and literary critic in Winnipeg and Vancouver. As a freelance writer he has contributed articles and criticism to the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Vancouver Sun, and British newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian and the Yorkshire Post. From 1985 to 1997 he was editor of the Canadian history magazine The Beaver and vice-president of Canada's National History Society. His books include a history of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Dancing Through Time; a history of Winnipeg, Heart of the Continent; and a comic novel, The Molsheim Meadowlark. He currently lives in Vancouver.

"The story of a remarkable young man who accomplished greatness after he realized early that 'I was born to be a scribbler and a scribbler I'll be all my life.' Chris, who was eight when his grandfather died, clearly inherited the scribbler mantle." -- Gerald Flood, the Winnipeg Free Press