Sharon Stewart is a professional editor and the author of seven novels, many of them historical fiction. She has also published a book of short stories and the biographies Norman Bethune, Heroic Doctor (Pearson Education Canada 2005) and Louis Riel: Firebrand (XYZ Publishing 2007), which has been translated as Louis Riel: Homme de Feu. Several of her other books have also been translated into French and other languages.<br />The Stewarts live and write in Richmond Hill, Ontario.