Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer and performer. She is the author of two bestselling memoirs and the creator and performer of two award-winning one-woman plays. Her most recent work, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter, is both a memoir and a multi award-winning solo performance piece. Drawing on her own life experience, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter tells the story of growing up with a gay father in a small town in the 1980s. Wearing's first solo performance piece, Giving Into Light, was created in central Mexico, where she lived for almost a decade, and the play combines literary chronicles with music, dance and theatre. In addition to numerous other awards, Giving Into Light was a finalist for the Best Fringe Production of 2011 by CBC/CVV Magazine/Times Colonist/Monday Magazine. Wearing's first book was the internationally acclaimed travel memoir, Honeymoon in Purdah, her account of a trip to Iran. The Calgary Sun called it "the perfect travel memoir" and the Ottawa Citizen hailed it as "one of the best pieces of travel writing it has been my privilege to read in this, or any, millennium." [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1967 in (Age 58)