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May 28, 1942 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 82 years old
Canadian journalist
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About Maggie Siggins
- Marjorie May "Maggie" Siggins (born 28 May 1942) is a Canadian journalist and writer.
- She was a recipient of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit for her non-fiction work Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm.
- She was also the recipient of the 1986 Arthur Ellis Award for "Best true crime book" for her work A Canadian Tragedy, about the involvement of former Saskatchewan politician Colin Thatcher in the murder of his wife JoAnn Wilson.
- Siggins is also noted as the author of a controversial biography of Louis Riel entitled Riel: A Life of Revolution.
- In Her Own time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women and Bitter Embrace:White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree are her last two books.
- Both Revenge of the Land and A Canadian Tragedy were adapted as television mini-series by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
- She is also the former chair of the Writers' Union of Canada.
