Betty Jane Wylie was a published poet first, then a puppet playwright, then a live-stage playwright for both children and adults, then an author, and then a screenwriter for TV and film.

In Our Store Reading Between the Lines - The Diaries of Women Betty Jane Wylie shares their journeys in this delightful book

Her plays have been produced at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, St. Lawrence Centre, National Arts Centre, Stratford Third Stage (now the Tom Patterson Theatre), Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille and Theatre Direct in Toronto, and other theatres in Canada (Saskatchewan, Alberta, NW Territories, etc. and various fringe festivals; in New York (AMAS Repertory Theatre), Minneapolis and Waterloo, Iowa, and in New Zealand, London, England, and South Africa. She has had 36 plays (and musicals) produced and published about three dozen books (lost count) - non-fiction, biography, belles letters, poetry and cooking. Her first TV movie (with Donald Martin) won two Geminis (for best supporting actors).

She was a Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe, has been named a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA, and given an Alumni Jubilee Award by the University of Manitoba where she received an honorary doctorate (D. Litt) in May of 2003. She was awarded an Order of Canada in 2004. Betty Jane has published about 35 books.

READING BETWEEN THE LINES: THE DIARIES OF WOMEN is one of her favorite books. (She has never stopped collecting women's diaries.) In her analysis, compelling reading in itself, Wylie shows how contemporary readers can discern the power and fascination of women's life-writing and find the thread and the through-line of their own lives. If they do, they're going to find out what it means to be a woman on this planet.