Eleanor King ByersEleanor King Byers is the author of The House With The Light On: A Native Calgarian Returns to the Forties and Fifties, Days of Unlocked Doors and Carefree Adventure (2003), Guardians Of The Lamp: The Calgary General Hospital and its Nursing School Rmembered (2009), and Steps To Nowhere: Journey with My Son (2012). Her historical memoirs are local bestsellers, and all of her writing is tied together by one theme: the importance of family.

Eleanor is a member of the Alumnae Association of the Calgary General Hospital School of Nursing and the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She lives in Calgary with her husband of sixty-three years, Dick, and their willful but loveable cat, Lucy. They have three children and four grandchildren. Read More Read Less