Career
Born and raised in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she was briefly married to Jack Murray as a teenager, moving with him to Vancouver Island before divorcing him at age 21. Foreign the Canadian Broadcasting Company, she acted in a number of radio and television productions, including Jake and the Kid, John and Judy and Barney Boomer. She also wrote radio plays, including Santa Had a Black, Black Beard and Flow Gently Sweet Limbo.
After John Drainie"s death in 1966, she remarried in 1968 to theatre producer Nathan A. Taylor, who died in 2004.
She published an autobiography, The Surprise of My Life, in 1998. Also that year, she created the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, a literary award presented by the Writers" Trust of Canada to the year"s best biographical work by a Canadian writer
