Anna Porter is the author of many books, including The Ghosts of Europe , winner of the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner's Train , winner of the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and The Storyteller , the winner of the 2001 Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Order of Ontario. Anna lives in Toronto.