In Search of April Raintree is a novel written by Winnipeg born writer named Beatrice Culleton. Beatrice Culleton was born in 1949, in St. Boniface Manitoba. She attended George Brown College, 1970, and Banff school of Fine Arts, 1983. She was raised in foster homes, as were her brother and two sisters, because of her parents alcoholism. Both sisters committed suicide and Culleton turned to writing for and emotional release. She is now a mother and lives in Toronto. She lived through the heart ache of being put in a foster home at a young age. Unlike the novel, In Search of April Raintree, her experience in the fost