Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond "the King and I" - Softcover

Leslie Smith Dow graduated from Carleton University's School of Journalism and has worked as a reporter for The Ottawa Citizen and the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Her articles have appeared in Reader's Digest and Quill and Quire.

Leslie Smith Dow is the award-winning author of several books, a poet, short story and novel writer, a former newspaper reporter and freelance journalist. An e-edition of her award-winning book, Adele Hugo: La Miserable, with a new Afterword, is now available from Goose Lane Editions. She was selected as the Canadian Authors' Association Air Canada Award winner for Most Promising Canadian Writer Under Age 30. She has been listed as a finalist for the Trillium Writing Award, as well as other non-fiction writing awards offered by the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality and the Ottawa Citizen. She was a winner of the Dartmouth Literary Award (non-fiction), and a recipient of grants from the Canada Council, City of Ottawa and Regional Municipality of Ottawa. Leslie has been a juror on the City of Ottawa and Regional Municipality Arts Awards Committees, and  been a member of the selection committee of Bywords.ca on-line poetry journal. She has written for numerous Canadian newspapers, magazines and journals as well as national and international publications. She lives in Ontario, Canada, where she keeps bees beside the St. Lawrence River.