Rosemary Sullivan is an award-winning Canadian author and biographer. She is the author of several books, including The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Villa Air-Bel, and The Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Sullivan is a professor emerita of English at the University of Toronto and a member of the Order of Canada.