McCarthy, R. J.

Born and raised in New York City, fiction writer, RJ McCarthy, has lived in the South more than half his life. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1972 and worked as a Clinical Psychologist before retiring in 2006 to devote himself to writing full-time. McCarthy is a member of the Virginia Writer's Group, the North Carolina Writer's Network, and both the Franklin County and Vance County Arts Councils. He's been writing fiction for 40 years and has a binder full of rejections to prove it. Quarry Steps Up, crime fiction, was his first published novel. Married and the f...