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White Angel author to read

Arts Council Reading Series
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Author and composer John MacLachlan Gray will read in Sechelt on Sept. 28.

Celebrated author and composer John MacLachlan Gray will read from his 2013 best seller, The White Angel, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28.

The evening, which kicks off the fall season of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council’s Annual Reading Series, may also feature some sneak previews from Gray’s current project, tentatively titled Vile Spirits.

One of the most versatile and multi-talented creative artists in Canada, Gray’s storied career includes stints on the stage, TV, film and radio, both as a playwright and a composer. He is probably best known for his landmark of Canadian musical theatre, Billy Bishop Goes to War, which he wrote and composed with Eric Peterson in 1978. Gray received both the Governor General’s Literary Award and a Golden Globe for the musical, which was produced on and off-Broadway and released as a feature film in 2011.

In later life, Gray turned to books as his preferred mode of expression and has published in both fiction and non-fiction genres.

The White Angel, John’s fifth mystery-thriller, is a riveting fictional account of one of British Columbia’s most notorious unsolved crimes: the murder of Scottish nanny Janet Stewart, who was found dead of a gunshot wound in the Vancouver home of her employer in 1924. Vile Spirits is set in the year following and like The White Angel is based on true life events and features some of the same characters.

The Art Centre is located at 5714 Medusa in Sechelt. Admission by donation.