Edith Iglauer

Background

Iglauer, Edith was born on March 10, 1917 in Cleveland. Daughter of Jay and Bertha G. (Good) Iglauer. arrived in Canada, 1976.

Education

Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1938; Master of Science, Columbia University, 1939.

Career

She is the author of several non-fiction books, including Denison"s Ice Road (1975), Seven Stones, a profile of the architect Arthur Erickson (1971), and The New People: The Eskimo"s Journey into our Time (1966). She is also a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Harper"s, Atlantic Monthly and Geist magazine. Iglauer was born in Cleveland, Ohio and educated at Wellesley College and at Columbia University School of Journalism.

Her interest in Eskimo culture led her to travel the northern climates extensively.

Iglauer appeared as herself, along with John Denison, in the History Channel presentation, Ice Road Truckers. Iglauer"s second husband was Canadian fisherman John Daly, and in 1988 her "Fishing With John" was published.

Widowed by Daly"s sudden death on the dance floor, Iglauer later married widower Frank White, another self-reliant Canadian in the same coastal community where she had settled permanently. Frank White died on October 18, 2015 at the age of 101, in Garden Bay, British Columbia.

Achievements

• Edith Iglauer has been listed as a notable Writer, reporter by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Fishing with John

    (This is a love story; an unlikely convergence of two peop...)

  • Fishing with John

    (This is a love story; an unlikely convergence of two peop...)

  • Inuit Journey: The Co-operative Adventure in Canada's North

    (In April 1999, the Inuit dream of a self-governing territ...)

Membership

Active Harbour Commission, Pender Harbour, B.C., 1993-1995. Board directors Grips, Sechelt Peninsula, 1996-1998. Member Authors Guild, Writers Union Canada, Cosmopolitan Club, Cleveland Play House Club.

Interests

• Avocations: swimming, travel, cooking, grandchildren. Fax: 604-883-9322.

Connections

Married John Heywood Daly, March 1, 1976 (deceased February 1978). Married Philip Hamburger, December 24, 1942. Children: Jay Philip Hamburger, Richard Shaw Hamburger.

Father:

Jay Iglauer

Mother:

Bertha G. (Good) Iglauer

Spouse:

Philip Hamburger

Spouse:

John Heywood Daly

child:

Richard Shaw Hamburger Iglauer

child:

Jay Philip Hamburger Iglauer