F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
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| Born | Fergus Gwynplaine MacIntyre 1948 |
| Died | 25 June 2010 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Pen name | Victor Appleton, Paul Grant Jeffery, Timothy/Tim C. Allen, Oleg V. Bredikhine |
| Occupation | author |
| Genre | Science fiction |
Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre known as Froggy (1948 – 25 June 2010) was a journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator, who lived in New York City and said he had lived in Scotland and Wales. MacIntyre's writings include the science-fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds and his anthology of verse and humor pieces MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary. As an uncredited “ghost” author, MacIntyre is known to have written or co-written several other books, including at least one novel in the Tom Swift IV series, The DNA Disaster, published as by "Victor Appleton" (a house pseudonym) but with MacIntyre's name on the acknowledgments page.
On 25 June 2010 MacIntyre set his Brooklyn apartment on fire and his body was later found there.
MacIntyre often told people he was orphaned by a Scottish family and raised in an Australian orphanage and a child labor camp. He used the aliases Paul Grant Jeffery, Timothy/Tim C. Allen, Oleg V. Bredikhine, and the nickname Froggy. But a teenage acquaintance alleged that the young MacIntyre spoke then with a plain New York accent from Long Island or Queens, raising questions about his claims of foreign origin. An acquaintance remembers MacIntyre sharing the reason for the "Gwynplaine" in his name; it was, he said, from the film The Man Who Laughs, based on the Victor Hugo novel, in which the title character, Gwynplaine, has had a permanent smile surgically carved on his face. MacIntyre stated that he identified with Gwynplaine and thus chose the name as part of his own.
In 2000, MacIntyre was arrested after a neighbor said he duct-taped her to a chair, shaved her head, and spray-painted her black. He wound up pleading guilty to third-degree misdemeanor assault.
On June 24, 2010, he was removed from his apartment by police and taken to Coney Island Hospital for evaluation after sending a despondent email to friends, one of whom called 911. He was released hours later, and returned home, where he reportedly lit his apartment on fire. The fire "grew quickly into an 'all-hands' blaze that took 12 trucks and 60 firefighters more than an hour to extinguish". A body was removed from the apartment. No other residents of his apartment building were killed. Eventually, the body was positively identified as MacIntyre. After his death, a brother came forward who stated that MacIntyre's life story was fabricated, but did not provide any details about his real-life story or the reasons for his fabrications and affectations.
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