McLean, Deckle

Deckle McLean was a newspaper and magazine journalist and then a journalism professor. He has written journalism on education, politics, law, and popular culture; and academic articles and books related to mass communications law. He also has written several mystery novels. Born in New Jersey, he graduated from Harvard University and Boston College Law School. He has been asked whether he always wanted to write mysteries. His reply is no. He took up mystery-writing as his retirement from teaching approached. He found he liked it. It provided a flexible genre that could embrace a universe of ob...