SOURCE: An interview in Books in Canada, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, May, 1995, pp. 7-13.

In the following interview, which was conducted over the course of a few weeks in early 1995, Urquhart discusses her life and her art.

Jane Urquhart began her literary career as a poet, publishing three collections: I Am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace (1982), False Shuffles (1982), and The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan (1983). She has also written a book of short stories—Storm Glass (1987)—but she is best known for her novels, all published by McClelland & Stewart: The Whirlpool (1986), Changing Heaven (1990), and Away (1993), which was a co-winner of Ontario's Trillium Award.

This interview has been fused together out of two separate conversations with Jane Urquhart, one by phone on February 7, 1995 and the other in person on March 2 in Ottawa, the day after her husband had received the Order of Canada.

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