death_place birth_place notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
1994 11 12 1902 5 7 sioux city , iowa '' dooley 's delusion '' may 7 , 1902 satire , black comedy tom mchale -lrb- novelist born 1902 -rrb-
 tom mchale novelist
tom mchale -lrb- novelist born 1902 -rrb-

thomas joseph `` tom '' mchale -lrb- may 7 , 1902 -- november 12 , 1994 -rrb- was an american novelist .
he was the author of `` dooley 's delusion '' , a novel published in 1972 , a story about the `` great west '' -lrb- sioux city -rrb- set in the 1880s and 1890s .
