Pat Capponi came to Toronto from Montreal after separating from her husband. Depression landed her in the psychiatric ward of a hospital and from there she was sent to live in a boarding house for mentally ill people. Three years later she left and led a successful campaign to have the boarding house closed. Capponi lives in Toronto where she is a leading advocate for mental health care.

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Books by Pat Capponi

	1992 Upstairs in the Crazy House (memoir)	Biblio.com
	1997 Dispatches from the Poverty Line (non-fiction)	Biblio.com
	1999 The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor (non-fiction)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2000 Bound by Duty: Walking the Beat with Canada's Cops (non-fiction)	Biblio.com
	2003 Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness (non-fiction)	Biblio.com
	2006 Last Stop Sunnyside (mystery) A resident at a rooming house is murdered and her housemates set out to solve the crime. The first book in the Dana Leoni series.	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2008 The Corpse Will Keep (mystery)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
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Added 23 March 2008.
Updated 16 May 2010.