Randall Denley

Randall Denley
Born London, Ontario
Occupation novelist, journalist
Nationality Canadian
Period 2000s-present
Notable works The Perfect Candidate
Website
www.randalldenley.com/index.html

Randall Denley is a Canadian journalist, author and politician. A longtime columnist for the Ottawa Citizen,[1] he has also published three novels.

Born and raised in London, Ontario, Denley graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a journalism degree in 1973.[1] He spent several years as a journalist and editor for the Owen Sound Sun Times[1] before joining the Citizen as a journalist in 1983.[1] In 1992, he moved from the regular journalism beat to a political column with the paper, writing about both municipal and provincial politics.[1]

His first novel, a murder mystery titled Necessary Victims, was serialized in the Citizen in 2004.[2] In 2006, he published The Perfect Candidate, a satire of local municipal politics in which Will Hacker, a former hockey player turned radio talk show host, is bribed by local developers to run a fake campaign for Mayor of Ottawa.[3] His third novel, a murder mystery titled One Dead Sister, was published in 2010.[3]

Denley took a leave of absence from the Citizen in 2011 to run as an Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate in Ottawa West—Nepean for the 2011 provincial election.[4] He briefly returned to the Citizen as an editorial writer after losing the election to incumbent MPP Bob Chiarelli, but retired from the paper in 2012.[5] He ran again in the 2014 election,[5] again losing to Chiarelli.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Making the jump to politics". Toronto Sun, September 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Columnist turns sights from City Hall to city streets". Ottawa Citizen, June 26, 2004.
  3. 1 2 "London native marries reality, fiction in latest book". London Free Press, December 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Citizen columnist to run for Tories against Chiarelli". CBC News, May 17, 2011.
  5. 1 2 "Candidates in Ottawa West-Nepean riding share a fraught political past". The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Liberal Bob Chiarelli holds seat in Ottawa West-Nepean". Global News, June 12, 2014.


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