Discipline: Literature

Georgess McHargue

Discipline: Literature
Region: Groton, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984
Georgess McHargue (1941-2011) was an American writer and poet. 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 the 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."

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Monday Music

Georgess McHargue worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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