Donald E. McQuinn

Donald E. McQuinn (born 1930, in Winthrop, Massachusetts) is an American best-selling author,^[1] and former U.S. Marine.

McQuinn graduated high school in Texas, and attended the University of Washington on a Navy scholarship. He served twenty years in the Marines—retiring in 1971 as a major—before becoming an author. He lives in the Pacific Northwest (Normandy Park, Washington)^[2] with his wife Carol; they have three grown sons.

In September 1998 he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while on vacation in Hawaii and became the first person saved by the Police Department's recent deployment of automated external defibrillators.^[1]

A third book in the Captain Lannat series was announced by the publisher as "a work in progress",^[3] but remains unfinished or unpublished.

Bibliography

• Targets (set during the Vietnam War), 1980, ISBN 0-02-583710-9
• Wake in Darkness (set in the Philippines), 1981, ISBN 0-02-583730-3
• Shadow of Lies (contemporary spy novel), July 1985, ISBN 0-312-93726-1

• Gan Moondark post-apocalyptic trilogy (published in nine parts in Germany)
  1. Warrior (November 1990), ISBN 0-345-36504-6
  2. Wanderer (November 1993), ISBN 0-345-37840-7
  3. Witch (November 1994), ISBN 0-345-37841-5

• Captain Lannat science fiction series
  1. With Full Honors (November 1996), ISBN 0-345-40045-3
  2. The Prisoner Within (December 1997), ISBN 0-345-40044-5

See also

	Biography portal
	United States Marine Corps portal
	Novels portal

Notes=

1. ^ ^{a b} "Survivor: Donald McQuinn: Vacationer Saved by Police Officer". Philips.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. http://web.archive.org/web/20070205235925/http://www.medical.philips.com/main/products/resuscitation/survivor_stories/donald_mcquinn.html. 
2. ^ "Results matching "Donald McQuinn, WA"". WhitePages.com. http://www.whitepages.com/10583/search/FindPerson?extra_listing=mixed&form_mode=opt_b&post_back=1&firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=Donald&name=McQuinn&street=&city_zip=&state_id=WA&localtime=survey. 
3. ^ Harris, Ellen Key (September 1997). "Del Rey Internet Newsletter". Random House. Archived from the original on 1997-09-05. http://www.evilminions.com/pipermail/cabal/1997-September/012630.html. 

References

• "About the Author". Warrior. Gan Moondark trilogy. Del Rey. November 1990. 
• Humphrey, Clark (November 18, 1990). "Books Briefly". The Seattle Times. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19901118&slug=1104908. 

External links

• Donald E. McQuinn at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Del Rey sample chapters:
  • Witch – Chapter One
  • With Full Honors – Chapter One
  • The Prisoner Within – Chapter One

Persondata
Name	Macquinn, Donald E.
Alternative names
Short description	United States Marine
Date of birth	1930
Place of birth	Winthrop, Massachusetts
Date of death
Place of death