Anna Porter is the author of many books, including "The Ghosts of Europe, Kasztner s Train, " and "The Storyteller". She has won many awards for her writing, including the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the Nereus Writers Trust Non-Fiction Award, the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and also holds the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto.