Linden MacIntyre is the award-winning host of Canada’s best-known investigative television show, the fifth estate, which he joined as co-host for the 1990-91 season. For three decades, MacIntyre has been involved in producing documentaries and stories from all over the world including the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Soviet Union and Central America.

Born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and raised in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, his career began in 1964 with The Halifax Chronicle-Herald as a parliamentary bureau reporter. He was also an Ottawa reporter for The Financial Times of Canada. In 1976, MacIntyre joined CBC Television Halifax as a current affairs story editor/journalist for “Here Today.” He soon hosted his own program, “The MacIntyre File,” which began in 1977 and ran for three seasons. His documentary entitled “Power and Profit” won him ACTRA's Gordon Sinclair Award for Outspoken Opinions and Integrity.

MacIntyre later worked at The Journal and hosted CBC Radio’s “Sunday Morning” before joining the fifth estate. His work for that show garnered an International Emmy. For his work in the 1993-94 season, MacIntyre won two Gemini Awards, the Gordon Sinclair Award for best overall broadcast journalist, and best anchor or interviewer. In 2003, MacIntyre and producer Neil Docherty produced “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.

In 1999 he penned his bestselling novel, The Long Stretch, which was recently reissued by HarperCollins. In 2001 he co-wrote (with Theresa Burke) Who Killed Ty Conn, (Penguin Canada), based on a broadcast investigation they had worked on. Most recently he penned his childhood memoir, Causeway (HarperCollinsCanada, 2006) for which he won The Evelyn Richardson Prize and The Edna Staebler Award for Non-Fiction. MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, CBC radio host and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.

Forthcoming:

Hawthorne
(Random House, 2009)

Novels:

The Long Stretch
(De Geus, Dutch, HarperCollins Canada, 2006, Stoddart, 1999)

Non-Fiction:

Causeway:
A Memoir
(HarperCollins Canada, 2006)

• Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction, 2007
• 2007 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• Globe and Mail Top 100 Books, 2006

Who Killed Ty Conn?
(Viking, 2001; co-authored with Theresa Burke)

Quotes:

“More than a historical memoir, Causeway is like a set of lessons on how to write a memoir. Unsentimental, unpretentious, evocative and written in clear rhythmical prose, this book should give pleasure to everyone.”
     - The Globe and Mail

“Causeway is an honest-to-God writer's memoir.”
     - Winnipeg Free Press

“Causeway explores a world which depicts a certain region of Cape Breton as it was ‘before Canada joined it.’ The book aches with details that are both rational and emotional. . . . MacIntyre is a fine writer.”
     - Alistair MacLeod, author of No Great Mischief