Ann-Marie MacDonald OC (born Oct 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host. MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees (1996), which was selected for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club in January 2002. MacDonald received the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Drama Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona. She appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others. MacDonald's 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case. Her third novel Adult Onset was released in 2014 and has been translated into five languages. Less