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Chafetz, Gary S

LC control no.n 93114182
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LC classificationPS3603.H3336
Personal name headingChafetz, Gary S.
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Found inHis Obsession, c1994: CIP t.p. (Gary S. Chafetz)
Huffington Post website, viewed May 22, 2015 (Gary S. Chafetz is the author of The Search for the Lost Army: The National Geographic and Harvard University Expedition, a novel based on a true story, to be released in the spring of 2013. He is also the author of The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, published in Sept. 2008, as well as Obsession: The Bizarre Relationship Between a Prominent Harvard Psychiatrist and her Suicidal Patient. As a correspondent for The Boston Globe, he won the top prize in General News in New England for 1991. From Sept. 1983 to Feb. 1984, he organized and led a six-month, $250,000 archaeological expedition--sponsored by Harvard University and the National Geographic, which searched for the Lost Army of Cambyses in the Great Sand Sea of the Western Desert on the Egyptian-Libyan border. The expedition included 20 Egyptian geologists, drivers, and laborers; a two-person Harvard Film Studies documentary film crew; a National Geographic photographer; subsurface-interface radar; three camels; and an ultra-light aircraft; [also writes for Huffington Post; probably lives in the U.S.])