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Archive Home > 2010 > May > 02 > Walter Murphy, a scholar who also wrote a best-seller

Walter Murphy, a scholar who also wrote a best-seller

By Bruce Weber / The Bulletin
May 2, 2010

Walter Murphy, a leading constitutional scholar whose otherwise sober, writerly resume was spiced with commercial fiction, including a best-selling 1979 novel, “The Vicar of Christ,” died April 20 in Charleston, S.C. He was 80.

The cause was cancer, said his wife, Doris Maher Murphy.

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