Merle Shain

{{Short description|Canadian author and journalist}} '''Merle Shain''' (1935–1989)<ref name=york>[http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000406.htm Merle Shain fonds] at York University Archives and Special Collections</ref> was a Canadian author and journalist.

Shain was born in Toronto, and graduated from the University of Toronto, with a BA (1957) and BSW (1959).<ref name=york/>

As a journalist, Shain worked as a feature writer for the ''Toronto Telegram'', as an associate editor of the magazine ''Chatelaine'', and as a columnist for the ''Toronto Sun''. Shain also worked as a television presenter, hosting the CTV news program ''W5''. For four years, she was a member of the board of the National Film Board of Canada.<ref name=york/>

She lived and wrote in Toronto until her sudden death in March, 1989, at the age of 53.

==Selected works== *''Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others'' *''When Lovers Are Friends'' *''Hearts That We Broke Long Ago'' *''Courage My Love''.

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