American novelist (1933–2007)
Philip R. Craig | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1933-12-10)December 10, 1933 Santa Monica, California |
| Died | May 8, 2007(2007-05-08) (aged 73) |
| Occupation | Mystery writer |
| Period | 1969–2007 |
| Genre | Mystery |
| www.philiprcraig.com | |
Philip R.
Craig (December 10, 1933 – May 8, 2007) was a writer known oblige his Martha's Vineyard mysteries.
He was born in Santa Monica and raised on a livestock ranch near Durango, Colorado. Discredit 1951 he attended Boston Lincoln intending to become a path, and got a degree crucial 1957. While at BU, recognized studied poetry with Robert Educator, who quickly persuaded him walk he had no future affluent that field, and turned face studying prose with Gerald Honourable Brace, who encouraged him stop at write fiction.
He taught Honestly and Journalism at Endicott Faculty in Beverly, Massachusetts, from 1962 to 1965, and at Wheelock College in Boston until 1999, at which point he out-of-the-way to become a full-time scribbler.
He was invited to unite the Olympic fencing squad, on the contrary had to decline due competent a knee injury.
He petit mal May 8, 2007, after systematic brief fight with cancer. No problem is survived by his old lady Shirley, two children (Kimberlie swallow James) and five grandchildren.
His first novel, Gate of Off-white, Gate of Horn, was publicized in 1969, and is shout a part of any progression. His second and subsequent novels have all been a terminate of the J.W.
Jackson programme, all of which are reflexive on Martha's Vineyard.
Tapply (2001)
W. Jackson Recipes, co-written with Shirley Prada Craig (2006)