Darcy O'Brien
Darcy O'Brien (born July 16, 1939 in Los Angeles , † March 2, 1998 in Tulsa ) was an award-winning writer of fictional literature and literary criticism. He was best known for his works on true crime. His first short story, A Way of Life, Like Any Other , was a fictional story about his childhood in Hollywood . In 1985 he wrote a book about the Hillside Stranglers entitled Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers , which was filmed for television under the title The Case of the Hillside Stranglers with Richard Crenna in a leading role.
biography
Darcy O'Brien was born in Los Angeles to Hollywood silent film actor George O'Brien and actress Marguerite Churchill , a frequent film partner of John Wayne .
O'Brien attended Princeton University and the University of Cambridge , and earned a Masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley . From 1965 to 1978 he was a professor of English at Pomona College . In 1978 he moved to Tulsa, and taught at the University of Tulsa until 1995 .
O'Brien was married three times and had a daughter named Molly O'Brien. His sister is Orin O'Brien , a double bass player who is a member of the New York Philharmonic .
O'Brien died of a heart attack in Tulsa on March 2, 1998.
Awards
- 1978: Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for the outstanding first short story volume A Way of Life, Like Any Other
- 1997: Edgar Allan Poe Award , Power to Hurt
O'Brien was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 1997.
Selected Works
- A Way of Life, Like Any Other (1979)
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Moment by Moment , novel version of the script by Jane Wagner (1979)
- From moment to moment . Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-01044-2
- The Silver Spooner (1981)
- Two of a Kind: The Story of the Hillside Stranglers (1985)
- Murder in Little Egypt (1989)
- Margaret in Hollywood (1991)
- A Dark and Bloody Ground (1993)
- Power to Hurt (1996)
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The Hidden Pope ( Karol Wojtyla and Jerzy Kluger ), 1997
- The Unknown Pope: Karol Wojtyla and Jerzy Kluger - the story of their lifelong friendship that changed the relationship between Catholics and Jews From America. by Anita Krätzer and Bernd Rullkötter, Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999 ISBN 3-7857-0964-1
Web links
- Darcy O'Brien in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Darcy O'Brien in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary in the New York Times
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Brien, Darcy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1998 |
| Place of death | Tulsa |