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Deborah Cowley
Deborah (Mason) Cowley is an Ottawa-based writer and broadcaster. She has travelled the world while writing more than 100 articles for different editions of the Reader’s Digest, many of which have been translated into dozens of languages. She has been an on-air broadcaster for CBC radio in Washington, D.C., and worked for CBC television in London and Cairo, Egypt. She is the author of Cairo: A Practical Guide, now in its 17th edition, of Lucille Teasdale: Doctor of Courage, short-listed for the Ottawa Book Award. With her husband George Cowley, she wrote One Woman’s Journey: A Portrait of Pauline Vanier. She also edited the wartime letters of former Governor General Georges Vanier, published as Georges Vanier: Soldier.
In 2000, she traveled to Ghana, West Africa, to interview Kathy Knowles, founder of the Osu Children’s Library Fund (www.osuchildrenslibraryfund.ca, and the OCLF Facebook page) a small Canadian NGO bringing books and literacy to African children. Since the publication of her cover story for Reader’s Digest in 2001, she has continued to work closely with Kathy, both in Canada and in Ghana, and she has so far made 17 extended trips to Ghana.
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