McGarry, Jean

Author Jean McGarry teaches in the Writing Seminars Department at The Johns Hopkins University.

Jean McGarry was born on June 18, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended Blessed Sacrament and St. Patrick's High School in Providence, and received her BA in social relations from Harvard University in 1972. McGarry took a job as a reporter with the Rhode Island based Pawtucket Times, followed by a brief stint with the Detroit Free Press. By 1976 she had returned to school and added BA degrees in music and French from the University of California at Irvine. After doing graduate work in art history and writing at Columbia University, McGarry attended the Johns Hopkins University where she received her MS in Writing Seminars in 1983.

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