Anne Giardini, O.C., O.B.C., Q.C., is a lawyer, director, chancellor of Simon Fraser University and the author of two novels: The Sad Truth About Happiness (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2005) and Advice for Italian Boys(Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009). She co-edited, with her son Nicholas, a collection of Carol Shields’ writings about writing, Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing (Toronto: Random House, 2016).
