Jane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet. Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer. Urquhart spent her later childhood and adolescence in Toronto, where she was educated at Havergal College, a private school for girls. She received her first B.A in English literature from the University of Guelph. While there, she met visual artist Paul Keele, and they were married in 1968. Keele was killed in a car accident in 1973;... Jane then returned to the University of Guelph to study art history, obtaining her second B.A. in 1976. The same year, she married Canadian visual artist Tony Urquhart. The Urquharts have one daughter, Emily, born in 1977. She is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels entitled, The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line. The Whirlpool received the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger .
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