Sheila Baslaw

Sheila Baslaw began writing after a career in social work. Intrigued by her parents' stories of childhood in a shtetl, she based Shmuel on her father's life as a Jewish child in Russia in the early 1900s. Sheila, in her nineties, lives in Ottawa.

Sheila Baslaw began writing after a career in social work. Intrigued by her parents' stories of childhood in a shtetl, she based Shmuel on her father's life as a Jewish child in Russia in the early 1900s. Sheila, in her nineties, lives in Ottawa. See less