![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His last book, Souvenirs of a Blown World, a republished collection of his writings while at the Globe, will be released in early November, according to David Simon, the publisher at Seven Stories Press.Īfter moving to Pulaski, Mcdonald became an outspoken opponent of white supremacists who wanted to march there because the city was where the Ku Klux Klan originated. Gregory Mcdonald is the author of twenty-five books, including nine Fletch novels and three Flynn mysteries. List said the Harvard graduate moved to Tennessee in 1986 to avoid that celebrity, but he continued to write. ![]() "He told me that he got to experience what very few writers got to experience, which was being a celebrity." "When the Fletch novels came out, they sold over 100 million copies," List said. List said no funeral is planned, as requested by Mcdonald, but a memorial service may be held later. He also was a journalist with the Boston Globe. Mcdonald twice won the Edgar Allen Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America and published 26 books, including Running Scared, Flynn, and The Brave. List yesterday said that Mcdonald had been diagnosed with cancer.įletch, published in 1974, was the first in a series of books about an investigative reporter named Irwin M Fletcher, who was later portrayed in the 1985 movie by actor Chevy Chase. Mcdonald died on Sunday at his farm in Pulaski, Tennessee, about 100 kms southwest of Nashville, according to Mcdonald's manager, Dan List. Gregory Mcdonald, whose best-selling Fletch mystery books also were made into films, has died, according to his manager. ![]()
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