Gerald Tomlinson
Gerald Arthur Tomlinson (January 24, 1933 – June 24, 2006) was an American crime writer and editor. He wrote about sports, crime, and New Jersey, with more than twenty-five of his stories appearing in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. He joined Mystery Writers of America in 1993 and was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, serving on its Publications Committee from 1990 to 1991.
Tomlinson was born in Elmira, New York, on January 24, 1933. He graduated from Southside High School in 1951, earned a B.A. from Marietta College, and attended Columbia Law School. He worked as an English teacher, then in publishing at Harcourt Brace and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and later became an executive editor at Silver Burdett in Morristown, New Jersey.
He died June 24, 2006, in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, at the age of 73.
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