Viceroy Power Press

Karen E. Black is an author and reference librarian who majored in sociology at the University of Western Ontario before receiving her master’s in library science from the University of Toronto. As an undergraduate, she met her husband while working at a campus pub-she was a waitress, and he was a doorman.

Black currently lives with her family in Toronto, the same city where she was born. She credits her work as a reference librarian to helping pay for her children’s ＂artsy＂ educations, vacations with her husband, and renovations and repairs to their century-old home.

After completing her fair share of family research, Black came to learn that most people are the result of ancestors who married their cousins-though she would like to point out, much to her children’s relief, that she and her husband are not related in the slightest.