Denison's Ice Road
Edith Iglauerwas born in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Philip Hamburger and raised two sons in New York. A frequent contributor to theNew Yorker, she has written a great deal about Canada. Her first book,The New People(1966, reprinted and updated asInuit Journeyin 1979 and 2000) chronicled the growth of native cooperatives in the eastern Arctic. She profiled Pierre Trudeau in 1969 and internationally known architect Arthur Erickson in 1979.Denison's Ice Roadis about the building of a 325-mile winter road above the Arctic Circle. Divorced in 1966, she came to Vancouver in 1973. She married John Heywood Daly, a commercial salmon troller and moved to Garden Bay on the BC coast. Daly died in 1978. After writingSeven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson, Architect(1981) she began recording her memories of her late husband and his salmon troller theMoreKelp. The result wasFishing with John, a runaway bestseller and nominee for the 1989 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Her second memoir, about her career in journalism, wasThe Strangers Next Door.