To Build a Better World

The new novel from writer Jack MacLeod traces the story of a man's return to his birthplace in Saskatchewan upon the death of his father. He comes face to face with an unresolved mystery of his past, which upends his already unsteady life.

Jack MacLeod (aka McLeod) was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1932. He earned a BA and MA in economics at the University of Saskatchewan before taking a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Toronto where he taught from 1959-1996. An experience in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 led him to begin writing political journalism, some of which appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Saturday Night, Books in Canada, Canadian Forum and the Journal of Canadian Studies as well as on the CBC. MacLeod published several academic works with University of Toronto Press, Oxford University Press and McClelland and Stewart and two political science textbooks. His two previous novels, Zinger and Me and Going Grand were on the bestseller lists. His third Zinger novel, Uproar, has recently been republished in response to popular demand. He is married to Cynthia Smith and together they divide their time between homes in Toronto and Muskoka. They rejoice in three children and three grandchildren.