Wayne Johnston

Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. His celebrated novels include The Story of Bobby O'Malley, which won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award; The Divine Ryans, which was adapted for film; The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York, which both spent extended periods of time on bestseller lists in Canada and have been published internationally. His latest, A World Elsewhere, revolves around a nineteenth-century mystery involving the suspected murder of a child.