Emmett Murray, Jr.

Dr. Emmett Murray, Jr. (Duke Murray) is an American author who has written numerous short stories, and one book, about life in the Midwest, particularly about growing up during the Depression Era of the 1930s.

Dr. Murray was president of the Lima City Board of Education during the 1960s. He retired from 42 years of family practice medicine in Lima, Ohio in 1994 and began his writing in retirement. He had been a popular doctor with a reputation also for being a humorist and storyteller. He performed monologues at hospital staff meetings and appeared in the High Fever Follies, a vaudeville-style program put on by the Lima medical community. His early material reprised monologues from the recordings of "Deacon Andy Griffith," and he later became fond of the material of Mississippi humorist, Jerry Clower. Dr. Murray's program of stories at the Allen County Museum in 2003 drew the highest attendance in museum history. In Fort Myers, Florida, both Emmett Murray and his wife, Polly, are active in the Tamiami Tale Tellers storytelling group. The couple lives in the Oakmont area of Shell Point Village in Fort Myers, where Dr. Murray has been featured several times on the Village's SPOT-TV programs.