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Pat mcmanus biography
Patrick F. McManus
American humor writer (1933 – 2018)
Patrick Francis McManus (August 25, 1933 – April 11, 2018[1]) was an American educator and humor writer, who primarily wrote about the outdoors.
A humor columnist and editor for Outdoor Life from 1983 to 2009, and Field & Stream from 1977 to 1982, as well as other magazines,[2][3] his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) up through The Good Samaritan Strikes Again (1992) and The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012).
Biography
McManus was born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho.[4] His father, who served in the 42nd ("Rainbow") Division under Douglas MacArthur during World War I, died when Patrick was six.
Although his mother later remarried a man named Hank, for the most part he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and older sister Patricia McManus Gass (referred to in his childhood stories