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R. Gerald McMurtry

Born: 1906 in Hardin County, Kentucky
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: The Author was director of the Louisa Warren Lincoln Library and Museum operated by the Lincoln National Life Insurance company of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Since McMurty was not a resident of Illinois, but a noted Lincoln Scholar - an Illinois subject of interest - his only books listed in the Illinois Authors Wiki are about Lincoln related subjects.

Biography: McMurty was not a resident of Illinois, but he was an extensive Lincoln Scholar and gave interviews at the University of Illinois Springfield - formerly known as Sangamon State University. He was succeeded by Mark E. Neely Jr. who was co-author of this book.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

R. Gerald McMurtry on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=r.+gerald+mcmurtry


Selected Titles

The insanity file :
ISBN: 0809318954 OCLC: 42331052

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale : 1993.

The insanity file :
ISBN: 9780809390694 OCLC: 961611468

 

 

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