Name Bartholomew Gill | Role Novelist | |
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Died July 4, 2002, Morristown, New Jersey, United States Nominations Edgar Award for Best Novel Books Death of a Joyce Scholar, Death on a cold - wild river, The death of love, Death in Dublin, The Death of an Irish Tinker: A | ||
Bartholomew Gill was the pen name of Mark C. McGarrity (July 22, 1943 – July 4, 2002), an Irish-American crime fiction and mystery novelist and newspaper features writer and columnist writing on nature and outdoor recreation for The Star-Ledger. He was the author of 22 mystery novels, set in Ireland, and featuring a "resourceful police detective named Peter McGarr." For his pen name, McGarrity used the name of his maternal grandfather, Bartholomew Gill, who "was a great storyteller." McGarrity wrote five novels and a work of nonfiction under his real name, and his writings for the Star-Ledger were published under his true name.
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Biography
Mark C. McGarrity was born on July 22, 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, McGarrity received a bachelor's degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and a master's degree from Trinity College, Dublin. His marriage to Margaret McGarrity ended in divorce.
McGarrity died on July 4, 2002, aged 58, from injuries sustained in a fall at his Morristown, New Jersey home. He had forgotten his keys and attempted to enter his home by climbing through a window. He was survived by a daughter, Madeleine, and a brother, George. He was interred in Newton Cemetery, in Newton, New Jersey, where his gravestone identifies him by both his real name and pen name, and as "author, outdoorsman, Maddie's father".