Ralph M. McInerny

RALPH MATTHEW McINERNY was an American author, philosopher, and professor who authored more than one hundred works spanning philosophy, fiction, and journalism, best known for creating the Father Dowling mystery series, later adapted into a television show. He also wrote the Sister Mary Teresa and Andrew Broom mystery series.

McInerny received the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award and served as a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He held the Michael P. Grace Professorship of Medieval Studies and was director emeritus of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught for over forty years. He held degrees from St. Paul Seminary, the University of Minnesota, and Université Laval.

McInerny died on January 29, 2010.

Ralph M. McInerny’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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