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David M. McGrath

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David M. McGrath (born July 19, 1949) is an American columnist, essayist and novelist. His writings draw from his life experiences on the south side of Chicago and as a teacher and fisherman in Wisconsin and Florida. He grew up in Evergreen Park[1], Illinois and now lives in Port Charlotte, Florida with his wife, Marianne McGrath (born August 30, 1948). While working as an English teacher at Chicago Vocational High School[2] on the southeast side of Chicago, he started writing and published his work in magazines and newspapers, including AIM, the Daily Southtown, and American Educator[3]. In 1990, he began his career at the College of DuPage[4] in Glen Ellyn, IL, and published his first novel, Seige At Ojibwa (2001)[5] and a short story collection, The Territory (2009).[6]

McGrath's columns appear in The Chicago Tribune[7], The Chicago Sun Times[8], The Daily Herald[9], The Naperville Sun, the Twin Cities Pioneer Press[10], and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune[11], and his essays and short stories have appeared in Artful Dodge[12], Chicago Reader[13], The Paumanock Review[14], Midwest Outdoors[15], Sport Literate[16], Notre Dame Magazine[17], and Florida Sportsman[18], including "The Swellest Thing" in Fourth Genre (2003).[19]

He is the author of two essay collections: Southsiders (2020)[20]and Far Enough Away (2023).[21]

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The writer's homepage and complete list of publications is here: https://sites.google.com/site/davidmcgrathwebsite

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  1. ^ "Evergreen Park, IL - Official Website | Official Website". www.evergreenpark-ill.com. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  2. ^ "Chicago Vocational Career Academy". www.cvcacademy.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  3. ^ McGrath, David (1990). "And then They Asked for Hamlet: Getting to Thanatopsis". American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers. 14 (2): 37–38.
  4. ^ "College of DuPage". www.cod.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  5. ^ "Siege at Ojibwa (Second Edition)". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  6. ^ "The Territory". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  7. ^ "David McGrath". Chicago Tribune. 2024-07-06. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  8. ^ "A Labor Day tribute to remote bosses". Chicago Sun-Times. 2022-09-04. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  9. ^ McGrath, David (2024-02-25). "Disturbing truth and the Vietnam Memorial". Daily Herald. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  10. ^ "David McGrath: My family's Irish heritage made me proud. Then my sister got a DNA test". Twin Cities. 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  11. ^ Columnist, David McGrath, Guest. "David McGrath: On Mother's Day, please don't do what I did". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved 2024-07-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Back Issues | Artful Dodge Magazine". Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  13. ^ "David McGrath, author at Chicago Reader". Chicago Reader. 2003-12-18. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  14. ^ "The Paumanok Review :: Late Winter 2005 :: Volume 6, Edition 1, Number 21". www.paumanok.katherinearline.com. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  15. ^ "Homepage". MidWest Outdoors. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  16. ^ "Catch Up". Sport Literate. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  17. ^ Dame, Marketing Communications: Web | University of Notre (2021-07-07). "His Intimaces with Lake and Stream | Stories | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame". Notre Dame Magazine. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  18. ^ McGrath, David (2024-06-17). "Charlotte Harbor: Everything But the Reds". Florida Sportsman. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  19. ^ "Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2003 of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  20. ^ "South Siders". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  21. ^ "Far Enough Away". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-19.