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)
	1997 Dispatches from the Poverty Line (non-fiction)
	1999 The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor (non-fiction)
	2000 Bound by Duty: Walking the Beat with Canada's Cops (non-fiction)
	2003 Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness (non-fiction)
	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.
	2008 The Corpse Will Keep (mystery)
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Added 23 March 2008.
Updated 07 January 2012.