Jack Todd (journalist)

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Jack Todd (born 1946 in Nebraska) is a sports columnist and author. Since 1986, he has written for the Montreal Gazette and is the author of several non-fiction and fiction books, including Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam (2001), a memoir of his resistance to the war in Vietnam and his decision to flee to Canada shortly after his induction into the U.S. Army.

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Early life and education

Todd was born in the United States in 1946. He graduated from the University of Nebraska.[ citation needed ]

Career

He worked as a journalist for the Akron Beacon-Journal , the Detroit Free Press , and the Miami Herald . In 1969, he left for Canada to protest American involvement in Vietnam. Todd settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He worked for the Vancouver Sun , Radio Canada International, and the Montreal Gazette.

In 2000, he won the National Newspaper Award for sports-writing [1] and is recognized as one of Canada's leading sports journalists. [2] [3]

In 2001, he published a memoir, telling the story of his resistance to the war in Vietnam which was nominated for the Governor-General's Award. [4] The Canadian title is The Taste of Metal, while the U.S. title is Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam. [5] [6]

In 2008, Todd published his first work of fiction, Sun Going Down, a novel on the opening of the American West based on his family history as constituted from letters and diaries. [7] [8] It was followed in 2010 with Come Again No More, which follows the family through the Great Depression. [9] The final work in the trilogy, "Rain Falls Like Mercy", was published in 2011. [10] Todd was interviewed for Ken Burns' 2017 miniseries The Vietnam War . [11]

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