Frank McConnell
McConnell, Francis DeMay
May 20, 1942 – January 17, 1999 (aged 56)
Birth place: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Frank McConnell was a professor of English at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He wrote a regular column on the media for Commonweal magazine, and his voluminous body of work included four detective novels and a number of academic books.