Betty Jane Wylie is a published, produced author and playwright with a D.Litt. (University of Manitoba) and an Order of Canada. She has published about three dozen books (everything but fiction) including plays, musicals, screenplays, biography, coobooks, belles lettres, poetry, self-help, children´s plays and puppet plays. She is a founding member of the Professional (formerly Periodical) Association of Writers in Canada, and of what is now called the Playwrights´ Guild of Canada, and a past chair of The Writers´ Union of Canada.