Georgess McHargue (June 7, 1941 – July 18, 2011) was an American writer and poet.
After working at Golden Press, she became an editor at Doubleday.
She had a long career working as an author; she published 35 books including children's fiction and nonfiction works on archaeology, history, mythology and paranormal studies.
[2] McHargue eventually moved to Groton, Massachusetts, where she edited reports on archaeology and history for the Michael's Institute for Conservation Archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum and for their historic preservation company Timelines Inc.[3] Her book Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement (1972) was a skeptical study of spiritualism.
The book exposed fraudulent mediums and was described in one review as a "well researched and intriguing case study in human gullibility.