Steve MacLeod

Steve MacLeod (born Steven Joseph Botvinnik on May 12, 1924) is a Canadian writer and producer.

Bio
Steve was born in the Free City of Danzig, and in 1939 fled Nazi persecution via the Kindertransport to England. A large majority of his family was killed at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. During World War II, he worked as a janitor in West End theaters. When Steve was 16, he received a letter from his parents saying they had emigrated to Newfoundland. After joining them, living in a shotgun house in St. John's, he began working as a writer for a local radio station's drama program.

Following Newfoundland's confederation into Canada, he began working for CBC/Radio-Canada.