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Gerry Boyle
Gerry Boyle was born in Chicago where his paternal
grandparents
settled as young Irish immigrants. His father and mother
moved to Rhode
Island when Boyle was a toddler. He had a comfortable,
middle-class
upbringing there, with lots of siblings and books. After
graduating from
high school in Warwick, R.I., Boyle attended Colby College
in Waterville,
Maine, where he studied literature. He also wrote short
stories and poetry. It was his first taste of writing and
of Maine and he was
hooked.
Boyle left Maine for a time, but returned and landed a job
with the Rumford
Falls Times, a small weekly newspaper in Rumford, a
paper-
mill town not
unlike Androscoggin (Deadline). Boyle's beats at the
paper
included high
school wrestling, for which he was eminently unqualified.
The newspaper
survived despite all odds. After a few months, Boyle moved to the
Morning Sentinel, a daily newspaper in Waterville,
Maine.
He worked as a
reporter but soon became a fulltime columnist. He left the
newspaper in
1999, continuing to write an occasional column until
2001. Many of Jack
McMorrow's adventures began with Boyle's experiences
roaming around Maine
looking for a good story. The first McMorrow novel,
Deadline, was published
in 1993 by North Country Press in Maine. Two years
later
Bloodline was
published by Putnam. Since then Boyle has produced a new
McMorrow mystery
every year or two. He became editor of the Colby college
magazine
(www.colby.edu/mag) in 2000, which allows him to continue
to do journalism.
Boyle is married to the former Mary Victoria Foley, a
teacher. They have
three children. The family lives in a small village in
Central Maine, though
Boyle makes frequent book-research trips, sticking to his
pledge to never
send McMorrow anywhere his creator hasn't been.
Books:
 Home Body, June 2005
Pretty Dead, August 2004
Home Body, June 2004
Cover Story, February 2001
Borderline, February 2000
Potshot, July 1998
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