Georgess McHargue


Georgess McHargue was an American writer and poet.

Biography

McHargue was born in New York City. After working at Golden Press, she became an editor at Doubleday. She had a long career working as an author; she published 35 books including children's fiction and nonfiction works on archaeology, history, mythology and paranormal studies. She also wrote about folklore and the occult.
She was nominated for a National Book Award for The Beasts of Never and she wrote many reviews for The New York Times Book Review.
McHargue eventually moved to Groton, Massachusetts where she edited reports on archaeology and history for the Michael's Institute for Conservation Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum and for their historic preservation company Timelines Inc. Her book Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement was a skeptical study of spiritualism. The book exposed fraudulent mediums and was described in one review as a "well researched and intriguing case study in human gullibility."

Published books

Fiction