JOHN MCALEER graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in English Literature
and was the author of over a dozen books including the Edgar Award-winning biography
of Rex Stout, the well-received mystery,
Coign of Vantage, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He has written critically acclaimed studies of Thoreau and Dreiser, as well as the definitive novel on the Korean War, Unit Pride.
A Bostonian and a professor of English at
Boston College, Mr. McAleer passed away on November 19th, 2003.

This website is respectfully dedicated to him.

In Memoriam:
An article from the Boston College Chronicle.