McGerr
McGerr is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jason McGerr (born 1974), American musician * Michael McGerr, American academic and historian * Patricia McGerr (1917–1985), American crime writer See also *McGirr McGirr Recorded as McGerr, McGirr, McGeer, and probably others, is an early Scottish and Irish surname, common in Ulster. It derives from the pre-10th century Gaelic 'Mac an gHeairr' which is believed to translate as 'the son of the short man'. What ...

Jason McGerr
Jason McGerr (born July 19, 1974) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band Death Cab for Cutie. Musical career Early years McGerr was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. At age ten, he began learning to play the drums in order to get into his middle school band. By 16, he was playing paid gigs at local bars. In a 2018 interview with KEXP, he stated that he knew he wanted to do drumming professionally when he heard Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" for the first time at 14. He was an avid fisher growing up, and worked at H&H Sporting Goods, a local fly shop, throughout high school. McGerr was previously in the bands Krusters Kronomid and Eureka Farm, as well as the jazz trio Rockin' Teenage Combo. In the Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary, McGerr identified drummer Neil Peart as his hero. Death Cab for Cutie McGerr joined the Bellingham, Washington-based indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie in early 2003, to replace drummer Michael Schorr. Tw ...
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Patricia McGerr
Patricia McGerr (December 26, 1917 – May 11, 1985) was an American crime writer, primarily known for her puzzle mystery novels. She won an Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine/MWA prize for her 1968 story ''Match Point in Berlin'' and was awarded the Grand Prix de Literature Policiere in 1952 for her 1951 novel ''Follow, As the Night'' (adapted as the 1954 film ''Bonnes à tuer'', aka One Step to Eternity'). Her first novel, ''Pick Your Victim'' (1946), was selected as one of the Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950.

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Michael McGerr
Michael McGerr is an American historian working at Indiana University in the History Department, a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he was appointed the Paul V. McNutt Professor of American History, an endowed professorship at Indiana University. In his career, Michael McGerr has worked at MIT, Yale and Indiana University. He is the author of ''A Fierce Discontent'' and a co-author of the text ''Making a Nation''. References External links * Indiana University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Yale University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Historians from Indiana {{US-historian-stub ...
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