Alison Gordon

Who is Alison Gordon?

Alison Gordon is a Canadian journalist and mystery novelist. As a Toronto Star reporter first assigned to cover the Toronto Blue Jays in 1979, she was one of Canada's first prominent women sportswriters; at the time, women sportswriters were so rare that her membership card in the Baseball Writers Association of America identified her as "Mr." Alison Gordon because the organization had made no provision for gender-neutral or female-specific cards.

She later began publishing a series of murder mystery novels focusing on Kate Henry, a female sports reporter and amateur detective investigating murders in the professional baseball world.

Gordon is the granddaughter of Canadian writer Ralph Connor, and the sister of journalist Charles Gordon. She wrote the afterword for the New Canadian Library edition of Connor's novel The Man from Glengarry.