Linden MacIntyre’s 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 Non-fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Award. His second novel, The Bishop’s Man, won the Giller Prize, among many other honours. The third book in the loose-knit trilogy, Why Men Lie, was named a Globe and Mail “Can’t Miss” Book. His other books include the novels Punishment, The Only Café, and The Winter Wives, and a work of non-fiction, The Wake. A distinguished broadcast journalist, MacIntyre spent 24 years as the co-host of The Fifth Estate and won 10 Gemini awards for his work. He lives in Toronto with his wife, journalist and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.
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