Gregory Mcdonald (1937–2008)
Autor de Fletch
Sobre El Autor
Gregory Mcdonald was educated at Harvard University and, at the same time, started up an international yacht trouble-shooting business to help pay his way through college. In 1964, Mcdonald was hired at the Boston Globe. In his seven years with them, he worked as a writer for the Sunday Magazine, a mostrar más critic, the Arts and Humanities Editor, a critic-at-large columnist and a member of the Editorial Board. He was hired by publisher Davis Taylor to make the Globe more competitive. With Mcdonald, the readership soared but advertisers pulled out, in part because he wrote openly against the Vietnam War, one of the first journalists ever to do so, and for arguing for Civil, Women's and Gay Rights. It was said that a group of fellow employees beat him up in the Globe parking lot for the stance he took in a controversial time period. Mcdonald has written many mysteries including the Fletch, Flynn, Son of Fletch and Skylar series. Some of the titles included in those series are Exits and Entrances, A World Too Wide, and Safekeeping. His novel The Brave was elected Trophees 813 Best Foreign Novel 1997 in France. Mcdonald has twice been the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, a recipient of humanitarian and peoples rights awards and is the past president of the Mystery Writers of America. He was suffering from cancer when he died on September 7, 2008 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: (cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Series
Obras de Gregory Mcdonald
The Fletch Chronicle, Three: Fletch's Fortune, Fletch's Moxie, and Fletch and the Man Who (Rediscovery Books) (1988) 11 copias
Last Laughs: The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1986) — Editor; Editor, Introduction, Contributor — 10 copias
Souvenirs of a Blown World: Sketches from the Sixties: Writings About America, 1966-1973 (2008) 2 copias
il ragazzo che non sapeva amare 1 copia
Priznaj, Fletch 1 copia
Vermögen bringt Ärger 1 copia
fletch too 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
la foire aux longs conteaux 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Mcdonald, Gregory
- Nombre legal
- Mcdonald, Gregory Burke Christopher
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1937-02-15
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2008-09-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Pulaski, Tennessee, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- prostate cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- Pulaski, Tennessee, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University (BA|1958)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
editor
reporter - Relaciones
- Mcdonald, Cheryle (wife)
- Organizaciones
- The Boston Globe
- Premios y honores
- Edgar Award (1975 and 1977)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 48
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 6,660
- Popularidad
- #3,676
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 112
- ISBNs
- 413
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 17