Karolyn Smardz Frost is a Canadian historian who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 2007 for I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad.
Smardz Frost is a historian, archaeologist, and professor of history. She has a bachelor's degree in Archaeology, a master's degree in Classical Studies and a PhD in Canadian History.[1] She was one of the founders of Toronto's Archaeological Resource Centre which provides archaeological education to school children.[2]
In 1985, Smardz Frost excavated the home of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn and later told their story in I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad.[3][4]
Her 2017 book Steal Away Home was nominated for the Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing in 2018,[5] and adapted by screenwriter Tamara Faith Berger and director Clement Virgo for the 2025 drama film Steal Away.[6]
Works
- The underground railroad: next stop, Toronto! (2003) with Adrienne L Shadd and Afua Cooper
- I've got a home in glory land: a lost tale of the underground railroad (2007)
- Steal Away Home (2017)
References
- ""Smardz Frost to lecture on African Canadian history at Yale"". Archived from the original on 2013-03-25. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
- "Karolyn Smardz Frost - Yale University - Department of African Studies". Retrieved 2013-05-24.
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- "Atlantic Book Awards 2018". Consumed by Ink. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- Kim Izzo, "Clement Virgo’s Steal Away wraps principal photography in Belgium". Playback, July 19, 2024.