Linden Macintyre

Linden MacIntyre’s bestselling first novel, The Long Stretch, was nominated for a CBA Libris Award and his boyhood memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, won both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Evelyn Richardson Award. His second novel, The Bishop’s Man, was a #1 national bestseller and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, among other honours. His other novels include Why Men Lie, Punishment and The Only Café. MacIntyre, who spent twenty-four years as the co-host of the fifth estate, is a distinguished broadcast journalist who has won ten Gemini awards for his work. Born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and raised in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, he now lives in Toronto.