Gallagher was born in
Manhattan in 1918. He graduated from
Columbia College in 1941 and served in Iran during World War II with the
Army Corps of Engineers and became a seaman in the
United States Merchant Marine, when he began to write. His book
The Gathering Darkness (1952), which traced a family whose life were upended after the
1929 Stock Market Crash, was a
National Book Award for Fiction finalist in 1953. Gallagher died on December 19, 1992, in
Manhattan. == References ==