Robert MacNeil
Born in Montreal, Robert MacNeil grew up in Halifax, attended Dalhousie University and graduated from Carleton in Ottawa. After early work as a CBC announcer, he was a journalist for forty years with Reuters News Agency, NBC News and the BBC, culminating in twenty years as Executive Editor of the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. His bestselling novel, Burden of Desire , won rave reviews in Canada and the U.S. He is also the author of two other novels, The Voyage and Breaking News ; three...See more
Born in Montreal, Robert MacNeil grew up in Halifax, attended Dalhousie University and graduated from Carleton in Ottawa. After early work as a CBC announcer, he was a journalist for forty years with Reuters News Agency, NBC News and the BBC, culminating in twenty years as Executive Editor of the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. His bestselling novel, Burden of Desire , won rave reviews in Canada and the U.S. He is also the author of two other novels, The Voyage and Breaking News ; three memoirs, The Right Place at the Right Time , Wordstruck , and Looking For My Country ; and co-author of The Story of English and its sequel, Do You Speak American? He divides his time between New York and Nova Scotia. See less
