Bio Section

2010 - Linden MacIntyreLinden MacIntyre, award-wining author and winner of nine Gemini awards for broadcast journalism, was born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and raised in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, birthplace of his parents. A graduate of St. Francis Xavier University, MacIntyre has worked at journalism since 1964, starting in Halifax at The Chronicle Herald and Mail Star. He has worked for the CBC since 1976 and has been co-host of The Fifth Estate since 1990. Television projects written by MacIntyre have won many national and international awards, including an Emmy. His first novel, The Long Stretch (1990), was nominated for a CBA Libris Award. His memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence (2006), won both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-fiction. The Bishop's Man received the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize.