protest the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Suicide On May 7, 2005, shortly after completing the manuscript for Kornwolf, Egolf shot himself in his apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He left behind a seven-year-old daughter born in France and a nine-month-old daughter born in the United States. Bibliography Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt (1999) Skirt and the Fiddle (2002) Kornwolf (2006) References 20th-century American novelists Writers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania American activists Suicides by firearm in Pennsylvania 1971 births 2005 suicides 21st-century American novelists American male novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Pennsylvania 2005 deaths