About Thomas Gallagher
Lived 1918 – 1992 (aged 73–74). Thomas Gallagher was a writer and journalist.
Thomas Gallagher (1918 – December 19, 1992) was an American writer and seaman known for his writing on disasters and military heroism. He won a Edgar Award in 1960 and was a National Book Award for Fiction finalist in 1953.
Biography Gallagher was born in Manhattan in 1918. He graduated from Columbia College in 1941 and served in Iran during World War II with the Army Corps of Engineers and became a seaman in the United States Merchant Marine, when he began to write. His book The Gathering Darkness (1952), which traced a family whose life were upended after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, was a National Book Award for Fiction finalist in 1953.
Gallagher died on December 19, 1992, in Manhattan.
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American writer
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Thomas Gallagher was born in 1918 in Manhattan, New York.
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Thomas Gallagher died on 19 December 1992 in Manhattan, New York.
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Thomas Gallagher was a writer and journalist.
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