A champion for writers and the written word, Lee helped launch the first Vancouver International Writers Festival in 1988 and ...

Ms. Lee, who died Friday at 84 “surrounded by love,” according to the festival’s current artistic director, Leslie Hurtig, ...

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 4, 1940, to a bagpipe maker and a barmaid, Lee’s love of books began at five years old, ...

After serving as the first head of the Writers’ Union of Canada, she knew the country’s major authors and rising stars, so ...

A passionate reader and champion of Canadian literature, Lee went on to build literary organizations in Canada from the ...

Whisky and Words: April 26 @ Performance Works This Vancouver Writers Fest fundraiser gives you unlimited tastings from distilleries both local and abroad (Japanese whisky, anyone?). Back for its ...

It would surprise nobody who knew Vancouver literary matriarch Alma Lee that her last words were a firm, “I’m Scottish”. The declaration, shared by her son Allan Lee, was true to her character, ...