John Terry McConnell

TERRY McCONNELL is an author, consultant, and former journalist. Lethbridge is his fifth and most recent book.McConnell’s career in newspapers spanned 38 years and earned him several provincial and national awards of excellence. He was elected president of the Ontario Community Newspapers Association in 1986 and its national counterpart in 1993. His newspapering career concluded in 2011 with the Edmonton Journal, one of Canada’s largest newspapers, where he was an editorial writer and a popular columnist. He later moved to Palm Springs, California, where he worked as a communications consultant. The father of five and grandfather of seven returned to Edmonton with his wife Victoria in 2018.