Episode 58: Terry Murray, in Conversation with Bee Quammie, Live at the 41st Taddle Creek Happening

The Taddle Creek Podcast
By Terry Murray
Published October 5, 2018
The Taddle Creek Podcast
The Taddle Creek Podcast
Episode 58: Terry Murray, in Conversation with Bee Quammie, Live at the 41st Taddle Creek Happening
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Terry Murray discusses her memoir about the integration of a local elementary school in her childhood Chicago neighbourhood, in the nineteen-sixties, with Bee Quammie at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 41, live at the LitBang! Pop-Up Shop, June 27, 2018.

Terry Murray has been a medical journalist for more than 35 years. She has held staff positions at Canadian Family Physician and the Medical Post, and been a consultant for the World Health Organization. She also writes about non-medical subjects, including architectural history. Her specialty is reclaiming forgotten lives, including those of Toronto sculptor Merle Foster, and Murray’s own parents and their contributions to the civil-rights movement in the nineteen-sixties. Her book about gargoyles and other architectural sculpture, Faces on Places: A Grotesque Tour of Toronto, won the 2007 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. Last updated summer, 2018.