Barbara Gowdy è nata il 25 giugno 1950. Luogo di nascita: Canada. È conosciuta come sceneggiatrice e attrice. È celebre per aver partecipato a Kissed (1996), Mister Sandman e Spoken Art (1997).
I consider myself to be a 'leap of imagination' writer, and in "Falling Angels" I was imagining not just a nuclear family but a nuclear-shelter family. What would happen, I wondered, if a father decided to put the backyard bomb shelter to the test, if he and his wife and kids hunkered underground for the two weeks that the government defense pamphlets of the time said were sufficient following a nuclear strike?
