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Frank D. McConnell

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born

May 20, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States

died

January 17, 1999

website

http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1r29n709&am...

genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Francis DeMay McConnell, known as Frank McConnell, (1942-1999) lived at Santa Barbara, California and was a professor of English at the University of California. He had been awarded his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame and earned his doctorate at Yale. He had then taught at Cormell University and at Northwestern University. He was twice married, and had two children and a stepson.

He published many books on film and literary criticism, as well as the four detective novels described below, and numerous magazine articles. For years he was media correspondent for the lay Catholic journal, Commonweal. He served several times on the Pulitzer Prize fiction jury. He was known for his robustious wit, and was a highly ribald, ente...more

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Books by Frank D. McConnell

Average rating: 4.14 · 2,607 ratings · 64 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Liar's Poker: A Harry Garnish Mystery 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Murder Among Friends 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Frog King 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination by Frank D. McConnell, Gary Westfahl (Editor), Donald E. Palumbo (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Blood Lake 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds 3.94 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1964 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Spoken Seen: Film & The Romantic Imagination 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Four Postwar American Novelists 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Storytelling and Myth Making: images from film and literature 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Bible and the Narrative Tradition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating: