• Source: John D. Fitzgerald

      • John Dennis Fitzgerald (February 3, 1906 – May 21, 1988) was an American author, most notable for The Great Brain series of children's books.


      Biography


      Fitzgerald was born in Price, Utah, the son of an Irish Catholic father and a Scandinavian mother who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He had two older brothers, Thomas (1902-1988; the basis for the character known as the Great Brain) and William; two younger brothers, Charles and Gerald; and an older sister, Isabelle (known as "Belle").
      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.
      Fitzgerald published his first novel, Papa Married a Mormon, in 1955. 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 people from his own family and community, including himself. The Great Brain is based on his brother, Tom. Fitzgerald changed many family details in the Great Brain series. He omitted his oldest sibling Isabelle and his younger brothers Charles and Gerald, gave his older brother William the name Sweyn, and invented a family custom of giving sons the middle name Dennis (his older brothers were William J. and Thomas N., not Sweyn D. and Tom D.) The Great Brain novels are structured like a collection of short stories, in which Tom either swindles people and then rationalizes it by claiming it was to teach them a lesson, or solves an important problem for the community. There are eight books in the series (one of which was published posthumously).


      Bibliography




      = The Great Brain series

      =

      The Great Brain (Dial Press, 1967)
      More Adventures of the Great Brain (Dial Press, 1969)
      Me and My Little Brain (Dial Press, 1971)
      The Great Brain at the Academy (Dial Press, 1972)
      The Great Brain Reforms (Dial Press, 1973)
      The Return of the Great Brain (Dial Press, 1974)
      The Great Brain Does It Again (Dial Press, 1976)
      The Great Brain Is Back (Dial Press, 1995) — published from loose notes after the author's death


      = Other books

      =
      Papa Married a Mormon (Prentice-Hall, 1955) — unofficially co-authored with Fitzgerald's sister Belle Fitzgerald Empey
      Mamma's Boarding House (W.H. Allen, 1958) — sequel to Papa Married a Mormon
      Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1961)
      (with Robert C. Meredith) The Professional Story Writer and His Art (Crowell, 1963)
      (with Robert C. Meredith) Structuring Your Novel: From Basic Idea to Finished Manuscript (HarperCollins Publishers, 1972)
      Brave Buffalo Fighter (Bethlehem Books, 1973)
      Private Eye (T. Nelson, 1974)


      References




      External links



      Histories of Carbon County, Utah
      Finding Fitzgerald blog
      John Dennis Fitzgerald at Library of Congress, with 17 library catalog records

    • Source: John D. FitzGerald

      • John Desmond FitzGerald (born 27 October 1949) is the former head of the macroeconomics and resource economics division and former coordinator of the research programme of macroeconomics of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin, Ireland. He joined the ESRI in 1984, after 12 years at the Department of Finance. He holds master's degrees in history and economics from University College Dublin.
      He is a former member of the Independent Expert Panel Commission established by the Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources in 2016. He was also a member of the Commission of the Central Bank of Ireland. FitzGerald was a member of the National Economic and Social Council, the EU Group for Economic Analysis, the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation, and the Renewable Energy Strategy Group. He was president of the Irish Economic Association and president of the EuroFRAME group of economic forecasters.
      FitzGerald has made contributions to economic policy in Ireland, ranging from investment priorities and structural funds, to energy policy and membership of the Economic and Monetary Union. He was the lead author of the influential ESRI Medium-Term Review (up until his retirement from the ESRI in 2014), which provides 7-year forecasts for economic development in Ireland and is published every 3–4 years.
      Fitzgerald expressed regret over not fully anticipating the effects of the Irish credit bubble during his time at the ESRI. The ESRI May 2008 Medium-Term Review (No. 11) forecast a softer outcome for Ireland's deflating credit bubble. Fitzgerald's earlier ESRI December 2005 Medium-Term Review (No. 10) had forewarned that the strength of Ireland's growth, in the light of growing global imbalances, was a material risk factor. The ESRI had begun to use the term "property bubble" (and referred to the OECD research on Ireland's property market) in April 2006.
      Fitzgerald is also a prolific financial writer and columnist in the Irish financial media on various economic and social issues.
      His father is former Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, his grandfather is former Irish Minister Desmond FitzGerald, and he is married to former Irish Minister Eithne FitzGerald.
      His brother is Mark Fitzgerald, co-founder and former CEO of Ireland's largest residential estate agency, Sherry Fitzgerald Group & Cushman & Wakefield Ireland (Formerly DTZ Sherry FitzGerald).


      See also


      Economic and Social Research Institute


      References




      External links


      Home page
      IDEAS/REPEC

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