Linden MacIntyre

A documentary filmmaker, MacIntyre’s film Power and Profit won him ACTRA’s Gordon Sinclair Award for Outspoken Opinions and Integrity, while in 2003, he produced (with Neil Docherty) A Toxic Company in partnership with PBS Frontline and The New York Times Television. The documentary won many prestigious awards, including the Dupont/Columbia Silver Baton, the George Polk Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and the CBC’s Wilderness award. The accompanying New York Times series of articles won a Pulitzer Prize.

As a writer, 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 Prize. His second novel, The Bishop’s Man, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, among other honours. The third book in the loose-knit trilogy, Why Men Lie, was also a #1 national bestseller as well as a Globe and Mail“Can’t Miss” Book for 2012. In 2017 he published a novel, The Only Cafe, a drama set in the Lebanese civil war (which he covered as a journalist). In 2019, he published a non fiction book, The Wake: the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami (which devastated the south coast of Newfoundland including the community in which he was later born). In 2021 he published a novel, The Winter Wives, about two friends married to sisters, both men infatuated with the same woman. He is currently working on a non-fiction story set in the Irish War of Independence, 1920 – 1922.

MacIntyre was born in St. Lawrence, Nfld., and grew up in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, N.S.