Margaret Anne Hume's interest in Mary Grannan arose from happy childhood memories of enjoying her TV shows and books of Maggie Muggins. "I had never had the pleasure of meeting her or even seeing her in person, but I was always aware that she was from my home province of New Brunswick", says Hume. "My later desire to write her biography grew from an adult curiosity about this woman -- so well known throughout Canada for over two decades -- now largely forgotten. Since I could not find any biographies about her because none had been written, I eventually decided to write one myself."
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Children's author Mary Grannan published over thirty best-selling books from her CBC Radio shows Just Mary and "Maggie Muggins." She had other radio series that were never released in print. In the Just Mary Reader Mary Grannan's biographer Margaret Anne Hume presents a selection of stories from radio drama series Jubilee Road and Land of Supposing.
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Albert Mair MacLean chronicles his family history and his own life story, featuring the gripping details of his experiences as a pilot of an Avro Lancaster Mk III bomber in World War II. With warmth and humour, he recounts his years raising a family and working for the T. Eaton Company. Edited and co-written by his daughter, Margaret Anne Hume.
read more...As the official biographer of Mary Grannan, Margaret Anne Hume is the Canadian author of Just Mary: The Life of Mary Evelyn Grannan, published in 2006 by the Dundurn Group, Toronto. She is also the editor of “Just Mary” Reader: Mary Grannan, Selected Stories, a new collection of stories and plays, written and broadcast by CBC storyteller Mary Grannan.
Margaret Anne Hume edited and co-authored My Life: Adventures of an RCAF Flying Officer, Eaton's Manager and Family Man with her father, Albert Mair MacLean. The book launch took place at his 90th birthday celebration on April 8, 2012 in Moncton, New Brunswick.
A former librarian at Concordia University, Margaret is a graduate of McGill and the University of New Brunswick.
As a Canadian author, Margaret Anne Hume is an active member of the Canadian Authors Association. She is also a member of the Federation of BC Writers and The Writers Union of Canada.
Mary Grannan was designated as a national historic person on March 27, 2018, by Catherine McKenna, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada. read more...
Just Mary, Mary Grannan's signature radio program for children was first broadcast on radio in November 1937 on CFNB Fredericton. The program was also carried on CBC for a number of months in 1938, but in September 1939, Mary Grannan and her Just Mary program moved to CBC Radio, beginning a long, successful broadcast run that continued until June 1962. read more...
Just Mary: the Musical, based on the book Just Mary: the Life of Mary Evelyn Grannan, is under development by Helen & Alastair MacCulloch (Optimistic Music Company). read more...