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American journalist
Edmund P. Murray
BornJuly 1930
New York City, U.S.
DiedOctober 2007 (aged 77)
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Website
www.maryroach.com

Edmund P. Murray (July 1930 – October 2007) was an American novelist and journalist. His novels include The Passion Players, Kulubi, My Bridge To America, and The Peregrine Spy.

Edmund Murray was a media adviser to the Iranian military during the Islamic Revolution (1978–79) when the Shah fell and Ayatollah Khomeini came to power. He worked as a journalist and a contract CIA agent in the United States and many parts of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Mr. Murray's short story "His Cuban Situation" published in the literary magazine Contact, won the William Carlos Williams Award.

References

  1. Schott, Webster (April 28, 1968). "Adventure in Fraud". The New York Times. p. BR4.
  2. Reed, Ishmael (October 7, 1973). "Kulubi; A panegyric for Western civilization By Edmund P. Murray". The New York Times. p. BR426.
  3. ^ Meagher, L. D. (September 7, 2004). "Three fine books for your time". CNN.com. Retrieved March 5, 2013.


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