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Gabrielle Earnshaw is an editor, writer, speaker and independent scholar specializing in the life and work of Henri Nouwen.
She is the founding archivist of the Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection at the University of St. Michael's College, a position she held from 2000 to 2016. She holds a BA (Hons.) in History from Queen's University and a Master's of Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia. Earnshaw has been the adviser to the Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust for twenty years and is consulted throughout the world on Nouwen and his literary legacy. She is the coeditor of Turning the Wheel: Henri Nouwen and Our Search for God and editor of Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life, You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living and Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety by Henri Nouwen. Her first monograph was published in May 2020, Henri Nouwen and The Return of the Prodigal Son: The Making of a Spiritual Classic by Paraclete Press. In June 2021, Earnshaw was named the official biographer for Henri Nouwen by the Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust. Earnshaw lives in Toronto, Canada.
See more at Gabrielle’s author page.