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Author J. McGrath was born in south
Mississippi where he lived until the age of 25. He married his childhood
sweetheart in 1956, and they will celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary in
August, 2007. They have two children and two grandchildren. They moved to
California in 1971, so Mr. McGrath could attend graduate school at the
University of California at Davis majoring in physics. In 1973 Mr. McGrath
was offered a job in the Physics Department which he held until he retired in
1999. Mr. McGrath began writing as a hobby in
1981, and soon decided to pursue writing as an avocation, taking creative
writing classes through the extension service at UCD. Demonstrating innate
skill to write dialog and compose fiction he was strongly encouraged by his
professors to seriously pursue writing with the goal of becoming published. Since beginning his writing career Mr.
McGrath has had thirteen articles published and has published two mystery
novels, Murder at Sunset and Mysterious Valley, the first two installments in a
series to be known as the Maggie Goss
Mysteries. He has begun the outline of the third installment
in this series with the working title of The Gentleman.
Taking a short hiatus from writing fiction, Mr. McGrath has just completed a serious
theological manuscript with the title: Christian Religion
is an Oxymoron. |