About Jay MacLarty
Lived 1943 – 2010 (aged 66). Jay MacLarty was an American novelist.
Jay Hector MacLarty (December 30, 1943 – December 23, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and novelist.
MacLarty was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa. His early years were spent in Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota. By the time he was thirty he had owned restaurants, nightclubs, and liquor stores, then founded a string of retail stores and a software company. He wrote one of the first computerized handicapping programs for thoroughbred racing.
He decided to take time off from his software business and write fiction. Unable to sell his first effort, a thousand-page novel, he decided to write a popular book.
MacLarty was a leader of the Las Vegas Writer's Group, formed to help local writers advance their careers.
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Who was Jay MacLarty?
American writer (1943-2010)
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Jay MacLarty was born on 30 December 1943.
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Jay MacLarty died on 23 December 2010.
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Jay MacLarty was a novelist.
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Jay MacLarty was American.
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