Biography margaret visser

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Visser, Margaret –

PERSONAL: Surname is pronounced "Fiss-ser"; born May 11, , in Germiston, South Africa; naturalized Canadian citizen; daughter of John Holland (an engineer) and Ruby Margaret Agar (a teacher; maiden name, O'Connell) Barclay-Lloyd; married Colin Wills Visser (a professor), June 8, ; children: Emily, Alexander. Education: University of Toronto, B.A. (with honors), , M.A., , Ph.D., Religion: Roman Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Music, film, theater, reading, painting, architecture.

ADDRESSES: Home—Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Agent—Westwood Creative Artists, 94 Harbord St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1G6; and The Wylie Agency, W. 57th St., Ste. , New York, NY E-mail—[email&#;protected].

CAREER: Writer, educator, journalist, and broadcaster. Mansfield Chronicle-Advertiser, Mansfield, England, reporter, –60; British Council, London, England, schoolteacher in Baghdad, Iraq, –64; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, secretary, –66; York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, lecturer in classics, –79, course director and lecturer in classics, –88, Canada Research fellow in department of classics, – Canadian Broacasting Corp. (CBC-Radio), Toronto, broadcaster, –, including for such programs as Morningside, –91, and The Arts Tonight

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Margaret Visser writes on the history, anthropology, and mythology of
everyday life. Her most recent book is The Gift of Thanks, published by HarperCollins. Her previous books, Much Depends on Dinner, The Rituals of Dinner, The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been best sellers and have won major international awards, including the Glenfiddich Award for Foodbook of the Year in Britain in , the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award, and the Jane Grigson Award. In she gave the Massey Lectures on CBC radio, subsequently published as the best-selling book, Beyond Fate. Her books have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. She appears frequently on radio and television, and has lectured extensively in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. She divides her time between Toronto, Paris, and South West France.