Ruth Holmes Whitehead has worked since 1972 for the Nova Scotia Museum, since 2003 as a Curator Emerita and Research Associate. She has authored or co-authored twenty books, including <i>Stories from the Six Worlds</i>, <i>The Old Man Told Us</i>, <i>Black Loyalists</i>, and <i>Ancestral Images</i>. In 1995, she was awarded a Doctorate of Laws, <i>honoris causa</i>, by St. Francis Xavier University. In 2014, Dr. Whitehead was inducted into the Order of Nova Scotia. She lives in Halifax.