Hilary Scharper, who lives in Toronto, spent a decade as an assistant lighthouse keeper on the Bruce Peninsula with her husband. She also is the author of a story collection, "Dream Dresses," and "God and Caesar at the Rio Grande" (University of Minnesota Press) which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. She received her Ph.D. from Yale and is currently Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Books by Hilary Scharper

Perdita

by Hilary Scharper - Fiction

Marged Brice is 134 years old. She'd be ready to go, if it wasn't for Perdita… Meanwhile, Garth Hellyer of the Longevity Project doesn't believe Marged was a girl coming of age in the 1890s, but reading her diaries in the same wild and unpredictable location where she wrote them might be enough to cast doubt on his common sense and unlock the mystery of Marged’s life.