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Darcy O'Brien (16 de julio de 1939 en Los Ángeles - 2 de marzo de 1998 en Tulsa, Oklahoma ) fueun premio -winning autor de la ficción y la crítica literaria , más conocido por su trabajo en elgénero de crimen verdadero . Su primera novela, A Way of Life, Like Any Other , fue un relatoficticio de su infancia en Hollywood . En 1985, escribió un libro sobre los estranguladores deHillside titulado Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers , que se adaptó a una película paratelevisión llamada The Case of the Hillside Stranglers , protagonizada porRichard Crenna . |
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| name = Darcy O'Brien |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|7|16}} |
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| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S. |
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|3|2|1939|7|16}} |
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| death_place = [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], U.S. |
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| alma_mater = [[Princeton University]]<br>[[University of Cambridge]]<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]] |
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| occupation = Author, Literary Critic and Professor at the [[University of Tulsa]] |
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| children = 1 |
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| parents = [[George O'Brien (actor)|George O'Brien]]<br>[[Marguerite Churchill]] |
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| relatives = [[Orin O'Brien]] <small>(sister)</small> |
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'''Darcy O'Brien''' (July 16, 1939, in [[Los Angeles]] – March 2, 1998, in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]) was an [[award]]-winning author of [[fiction]] and [[literary criticism]], most well known for his work in the genre of [[true crime]]. His first novel, ''A Way of Life, Like Any Other''<ref>{{Cite book|title=A way of life, like any other|last=O'Brien, Darcy.|date=2001|publisher=New York Review Books|isbn=094032279X|location=New York|oclc=46678088}}</ref>, was a fictionalized account of his childhood in [[Hollywood]]. In 1985, he wrote a book about the [[Hillside Stranglers]] entitled ''Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Two of a kind : the Hillside stranglers|last=O'Brien, Darcy.|date=1985|publisher=New American Library|isbn=0453004997|location=New York, N.Y.|oclc=12106189}}</ref>, which was adapted into a made-for-[[television film]] called ''[[The Case of the Hillside Stranglers]]'', starring [[Richard Crenna]]. |
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==Biography== |
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Revision as of 18:38, 21 July 2019
Darcy O'Brien (16 de julio de 1939 en Los Ángeles - 2 de marzo de 1998 en Tulsa, Oklahoma ) fueun premio -winning autor de la ficción y la crítica literaria , más conocido por su trabajo en elgénero de crimen verdadero . Su primera novela, A Way of Life, Like Any Other , fue un relatoficticio de su infancia en Hollywood . En 1985, escribió un libro sobre los estranguladores deHillside titulado Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers , que se adaptó a una película paratelevisión llamada The Case of the Hillside Stranglers , protagonizada porRichard Crenna .
Biography
Darcy O'Brien was born in Los Angeles, the son of Hollywood silent film actor George O'Brien and actress Marguerite Churchill, a frequent co-star of John Wayne.
O'Brien attended Princeton University and University of Cambridge, and received a master's degree and doctorate 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 one daughter named Molly O'Brien. His sister is Orin O'Brien, a double bassist and member of the New York Philharmonic.
O'Brien died of a heart attack[1] in Tulsa on March 2, 1998.
Awards
- 1978: Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel, 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 (1977 & 2001). New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0393087987. OCLC 3203215
- Moment by Moment, novelization of screenplay by Jane Wagner (1979)[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)
- The Hidden Pope (2001)
- The Conscience of James Joyce (2016)
References
- ^ Lyman, Rick (1998-03-04). "Darcy O'Brien, 59, Author Of Fiction and 'True Crime'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ Barker, B. M.; O'Brien, G. M.; O'Connell, R. F. (1981-10-15). "Relativistic quadrupole moment". Physical Review D. 24 (8): 2332–2335. doi:10.1103/physrevd.24.2332. ISSN 0556-2821.
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- 1939 births
- 1998 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American non-fiction crime writers
- American academics of English literature
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers