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About Gary Lavergne
- Gary Mitchell Lavergne (born October 28, 1955 in Church Point, Louisiana) is an American non-fiction author.
- Among his subjects are killers Charles J.
- Whitman, and Kenneth Allen McDuff. Lavergne earned a bachelor of arts degree in social studies education and a master's in education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
- In 1988, he earned an education specialist degree in educational administration and supervision from McNeese State University.
- He was a social studies teacher, held administrative positions for both the SAT and the ACT college entrance exam companies, and in between jobs performed stand-up comedy.
- He worked for the College Board traveling to universities helping administrators understand the SAT.
- Lavergne retired as director of admissions research for the University of Texas in 2019.
- Among Lavergne's books is 1997's A Sniper in the Tower about the 1966 shooting rampage of Charles Whitman, which according to a 2007 Associated Press article is "considered the definitive account of the massacre" and to Frank Rich in a 1997 The New York Times piece is "the authoritative account of the Whitman case".
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