Cornwall, Claudia

Claudia Cornwall was born in Shanghai, but has lived in Canada ever since she was nine months old. She studied philosophy at university; her PhD thesis looked at the question of whether language-using gorillas were persons. She married in 1971, and together with her husband settled in Vancouver. Though she liked ideas, she found that she couldn t make a living as a philosopher! So, she turned to freelance writing. She has written many articles about science and medicine for Reader s Digest, for both the Canadian and international editions, for the Globe and Mail, BC Business, and other magazin...