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Gary Chartrand was born in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on August 24, 1936. With his parents and brother, he moved to Lansing in 1949. He was awarded all three of his university degrees in mathematics from Michigan State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1964. The area of his Ph.D. dissertation was line graphs. He immediately went to Western Michigan University as an Assistant Professor. He spent 1965-66 at the University of Michigan as a Research Associate, working with Frank Harary. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1967 and to Full Professor in 1970. His main interest in mathematics has always been the area of graph theory.

He has authored one and co-authored four textbooks in graph theory, one of which has been translated into Japanese and another into Chinese, and is co-author of the book Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics (now in its second edition). He authored the book Introductory Graph Theory and co-authored Introduction to Graph Theory, Chromatic Graph Theory and Graphs & Digraphs (now in its fifth edition). He has authored or co-authored over 283 research articles in graph theory. He served as the first managing editor of the Journal of Graph Theory (for seven years) and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Graph Theory and Discrete Mathematics. He directed the dissertations of twenty-two doctoral students at Western Michigan University.

He is the recipient of the University Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award and the Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award from Western Michigan University and the Distinguished Faculty award from the State of Michigan. He also received an award as managing editor of the best new journal (Journal of Graph Theory) by the Association of American Publishers in the scientific, medical, and technical category. He has been awarded four research grants from the Office of Naval Research and one from the National Science Foundation. He has given over one hundred invited and contributed talks and has been a co-director of many regional, national, and international meetings and conferences. He served as a source for a 1996 article in The Detroit News about graph theory and research in graph theory at Western Michigan University and was the subject of a 1996 article in the Western Michigan University Research Magazine about research in graph theory.

He retired from Western Michigan University on January 1, 2005 and is now Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.

In addition to his interests in writing, he has great interest in musical theatre and Broadway composers.