John A. Nagy

John Allan Nagy (1946 – April 1, 2016), was a nonfiction writer on the American Revolution with an expertise in the field of espionage and mutinies.

Nagy was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1964. In 1968 he graduated from Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania. He later attended Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and graduated in 1979 with a master's degree in Management Science. He lived in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Nagy died at his home in New Jersey on April 1, 2016.

Work He was a Scholar in Residence at Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania and has been a consultant for Colonial Williamsburg, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on espionage. He has appeared on C-SPAN, the History Channel, and been interviewed twice in hour-long programs for Pennsylvania Cable Network. He also appeared in "The President's Inner Circle" episode of Brad Meltzer's Decoded.

In 2003 he was the speaker representing the French Government with a talk on the French Spies in the American Revolution at the Franco-American Alliance Celebration on the 225th anniversary of the Treaties signed in Paris on 6 February 1778 held on February 6, 2003, at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In April 2015, he was a research fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He completed his 5th book on the American Revolution, George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster, in early 2016 before his death in April. It was released posthumously in September 2016.

Awards 2007 American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia best book published in 2007 on the American Revolution Era.