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Hillsborough River Guidebook

Twentieth-Century Florida Authors

Babe Ruth in Florida

South Florida Waterways

I have written at least one article a month for this fishing magazine

for 9+ years.

Florida Outhouses

The History of Micanopy, Florida

3rd edition

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

The Gainesville, Florida Police Department: An Illustrated History

Alligator Tales

Caloosahatchee River Guidebook

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The Gators and the Seminoles:

Honor, Guts and Glory

Florida vs Florida State

Cedar Key, Florida

A History

St. Jerome:

An Illustrated Biography

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS SOCIETY

Judge Stephan P. Mickle:

His Life and Legacy

Women at the

University of Florida

Micanopy, Florida:

An Illustrated History

Waldo, Florida:
An Illustrated History

Turkey 2 Volunteers

in the Peace Corps: 1963 - 2008

Florida Lighthouses

Guide to the University

of Florida and Gainesville

February 22, 2023

Orange Lake, Florida

An Illustrated History

with Jim Stephens.

The History of Gilchrist County

OTHER PUBLISHED BOOKS

Thirty Florida Shipwrecks

KING SAUD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The Autobiography of

Kevin M. McCarthy

Carl Joseph: Some Called

Me “Superstar”

Florida Outhouses:

An Ode to the Shack in the Back

African Americans in Florida

PINEAPPLE PRESS

“A River in Flood” and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Dessie Smith Prescott

Remembering University

of Florida Football

"Florida Living" Magazine

named me as one

of Florida's "Intriguing Floridians."

Benjamin Otis Franklin Jr.:

His Life Story

The Galata Bridge in Istanbul:

An Illustrated History

NATURE COAST PUBLISHING HOUSE

Baseball in Florida

Georgia's Lighthouses &

Historic Coastal Sites

In case you haven't guessed by now, I am of Irish descent! My family is officially a part of the Clan MacCarthy, which has its roots in Ireland and publishes The Stag Trippant Journal.

I earned a bachelor's degree in English from LaSalle College (now University) in Philadelphia, PA (1963), spent two years teaching English as a Foreign Language in the U.S. Peace Corps in Turkey (1963-65), earned a master's degree in American Literature (1966) and a doctorate in Linguistics (1970), both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For my doctoral research I spent a summer (1968) studying Arabic at the American University of Cairo in Egypt. My dissertation dealt with the ways that Modern Turkish has changed loanwords from other languages (Arabic, English, French, German, and Persian) to make them conform to the Turkish linguistic system. I then began teaching at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

After 37 years of teaching linguistics and writing in the Department of English at the University of Florida, I retired in December 2005. During that time I also taught for one year at the Lebanese National University in Beirut, Lebanon as a Fulbright Professor of English (1971-72) and two years at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a Fulbright Professor of English (1982-84). I taught writing workshops twice at Hanoi University in Hanoi, Vietnam, and also served as the executive director of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society for eighteen years. The society has a wonderful meeting held in various locations around Florida each year in the spring. If you are interested in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's writings and Southern Literature in general, please consider joining the society and taking part in the annual spring meeting.

I have also testified six times as an "expert grammarian" in law cases dealing with the interpretation of language in contracts dealing with real estate, employee relations, and prenuptial contracts. For several summers I taught a course on the Maritime History of Greece to American college students on the Greek island of Paros. My wife, Karelisa Hartigan, and I have taught English four times as volunteers in a week-long Spanish program, Pueblo Ingles (now called Diverbo), to Spanish business-people in villages in northern Spain. We have also spent much time lecturing on cruise ships sailing in and around Europe and the Caribbean. We have been on over 50 such lecture cruises.

I have had 77 books published or edited, mostly about Florida history, culture, and sports. Several books are in their second or third edition . See below for pictures of the covers of those books and for pictures of the covers of magazines that I have published articles in.

I am married and have four children. Kevin McCarthy's email address: ceyhankevin@gmail.com

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Fightin' Gators:

A History of University of Florida Football