Canadian author and biographer Rosemary Sullivan

Rosemary Sullivan talks about her love of biography and her works Stalin's Daughter: the Extraordinary Times and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva and Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseille. Rosemary Sullivan is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. She has written 14 books. Her others include, Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession. Shadow Maker, her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. She has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Trudeau, and Jackman Fellowships and was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal by the Royal Society for her contributions to Literature and Culture. In 2012 she became an Officer of the Order of Canada.