- CA QUA00489
- Person
- 1910-1975
Born Vera Lesik in Winnipeg to Ukrainian Baptist parents. Educated at the University of Manitoba, receiving her BA in 1929. Lesik worked as a nurse and school teacher in the West, then as a journalist on the Windsor Star until 1943, when she became a freelance journalist and writer.
She wrote under the names Vera Lysenko and Luba Novak. She was the author of Men in Sheepskin Coats (1947) and the novels Yellow Boots (1954) and Westerly Wild (1956).