Name Georgess McHargue | Role Author | |
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Died July 18, 2011, Groton, Massachusetts, United States Nominations National Book Award for Children's Books Books Meet the Werewolf, Stoneflight, Elidor and the golden ball, Queen in Waiting: A Life of Blo, The impossible people | ||
Georgess McHargue (June 7, 1941 – July 18, 2011) was an American writer and poet.
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Biography
McHargue was born in New York City. After working at Golden Press, she became an editor at Doubleday. She had a long career working as an author, she published 35 books including many children's fiction books and nonfiction works on archaeology, history, mythology and paranormal. She also wrote on folklore and occult topics.
She was nominated for a National Book Award for The Beasts of Never (1988) and she wrote many reviews for The New York Times Book Review.
McHargue moved to Groton, Massachusetts. She edited reports in archaeology and history for Michael's Institute for Conservation Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum and for their historic preservation company Timelines Inc. Her book Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement (1972) was a skeptical study of spiritualism. The book exposed fraudulent mediums and was described in a review as a "well researched and intriguing case study in human gullibility."