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.
[citation needed] He worked as a journalist for the Akron Beacon-Journal, the Detroit Free Press, and the Miami Herald.
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.
[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.