John Dennis Fitzgerald (1907- 1988) was an American author. He was born in Utah, the son of a IrishCatholic father and a ScandinavianMormon mother. He left Utah in 1925, at the age of 18, and held a variety of jobs, including playing in a jazz band, working at a bank and working for a steel company. He became a surprise literary success in 1955 with his first novel, Papa Married A Mormon. Other novels for adults about late nineteenth and early twentieth century Utah followed. Fitzgerald had many stories published in magazines, and he also co-wrote two textbooks about creative writing. In the 1960s, he turned his attention to books for children, writing the highly successful The Great Brain series, in which his characters are loosely based on characters from his own family and community, including himself. The Great Brain is his brother, Tom D. Fitzgerald. The novels are structured like a collection of short stories, in which Tom either swindles people to teach them a lesson, or solves an important problem for the community. There are eight books in the series. 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Utah is one of the Four Corners states, and is bordered by: Idaho (at 42°N) and Wyoming (at 41°N and 111°W) in the north, by Colorado (at 109°W) in the east, at a single point by New Mexico to the southeast (at the Four Corners Monument... The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ... Mormon is a colloquial term used to refer to members of most of the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, members of a religion which was founded in the 1830s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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