Stephan talty biography sample

Irish American journalist and author (born c. 1960)

Stephan Talty (born 1964) is an Irish American journalist and author born in Buffalo, New York (state) to parents from County Clare.

He is famous for creating the character of Abbie Kearney, a fictional female detective who pursues serial killers in Buffalo, New York.^[1] He also co‑wrote A Captain's Duty, about the 2009 hijacking of a ship by Somali pirates.

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Career

Talty attended Bishop Timon High School in Buffalo, New York and Amherst College in Massachusetts, before finding employment as a journalist with the Miami Herald. During the 1990s, he went freelance in Dublin and New York, and contributed articles for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Playboy, the Irish Times, and the Chicago Review.

In addition to writing detective fiction, Talty has written several nonfiction books on crime and American history. He co‑wrote the book that was the basis for Captain P