MY BIOGRAPHY (Such as it is) followed by some FAQ Janet Lunn was born on December 28, 1928 in Dallas, Texas, U.S. A. (but don’t ask her about Texas because she left there when she was six months old). She grew up in rural Vermont and the suburbs of New York City, graduating from high school in Montclair, New Jersey in 1946. She attended Notre Dame College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She married Richard Lunn (a fellow student at Queen’s) in 1950 and became a Canadian citizen in 1963. The Lunns had five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1950 and 1958. They lived in Kingston and then Toronto until they moved to an old farm house at the edge of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County, Ontario where Richard was born and grew up and where Janet set three of her novels and her Christmas story, One Hundred Shining Candles. (The Root Cellar was set in her own house.) The children grew up and moved away. Richard Lunn died in 1987. In the summer of 1999, Janet moved to a town house in the city of Ottawa where she still lives. She says that she misses her farm house and the landscape where she set so many of her stories but Ottawa has long been a favourite city and her small, enclosed garden suits her very well now. Janet says that she was a child who loved reading or being out on the hills or beside the brook that ran behind her family’s Vermont farmhouse more than anything. She was often in trouble in school for daydreaming and because she hadn’t (and still hasn’t) any head for numbers. When she was a teenager, she worked summers in the library and saved all the money she earned to go to movies or to go into New York City to the opera or the theatre. She says she was never the kind of “cool” kid, people write tv sitcoms about. Janet says that she writes the kind of stories she has always liked to read and that they all reflect her own feelings about people, how we are and, sometimes, how we might better be.

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