Bartholomew Gill

|birth_place=Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_date= |death_place=Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. |pseudonym=Bartholomew Gill |occupation= |nationality=Irish-American |alma_mater=Brown University
Trinity College Dublin |genres= |spouse=Margaret McGarrity |children=1 }} Bartholomew Gill was the pen name of Mark C. McGarrity (July 22, 1943 – July 4, 2002), an Irish-American crime fiction and mystery novelist and newspaper features writer and columnist writing on nature and outdoor recreation for ''The Star-Ledger''. He was the author of 22 mystery novels, set in Ireland, and featuring a "resourceful police detective named Peter McGarr." For his pen name, McGarrity used the name of his maternal grandfather, Bartholomew Gill, who "was a great storyteller." McGarrity wrote five novels and a work of nonfiction under his real name, and his writings for the ''Star-Ledger'' were published under his true name. Provided by Wikipedia