A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri is a non-fiction memoir of his mother by the Canadian television host Johnnie Walters, written under his real name John Leigh Walters and published in January 2010 by Athabasca University Press. It re-tells the stories his mother described to him regarding her immigration to Canada in the 1920s. Walters gives his first person account using humor, and intrigue, to share his mother's expressed regards about her depression era experiences.CBC News, October 13, 2010, Immigrant tale wins $10K creative non-fiction prize, Arts & Entertainment, Retrieved 11/23/2012
Awards and honours A Very Capable Life won the 2010 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".Faculty of Arts, October 12, 2010, Edna Staebler Award , Wilfrid Laurier University, Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/23/2012
See also List of Edna Staebler Award recipients
References
External links AU Press, A Very Capable Life, Retrieved 11/23/2012