Maryscott O'Connor
Maryscott O'Connor (born April 29, 1968), is the founder and main author of My Left Wing, a left-wing weblog focusing on progressive, liberal, and Democratic Party politics.
O'Connor was born in Detroit, Michigan to an Irish mother and Scottish father. Her father, Terence Raymond Roach, Jr., USMC, died at Khe Sanh, a major battle in the Vietnam War, three months before her birth. Her mother remarried and the family lived abroad for many years, including in Spain and Portugal, before returning to the U.S. in 1979, when O'Connor was 11.
After graduating from high school in Traverse City, Michigan, she attended the University of Michigan, majoring in theatre. In 1990 she moved to Los Angeles to marry and pursue an acting career. IN the ensuing decade O'Connor divorced, got sober, moved back to Michigan, began drinking again, moved to Chicago, quit drinking again and finally moved back to Los Angeles, where she met her husband, Adam Crocker. They had a boy on December 7, 1999 -- Terence (Terry) Devin O'Connor. After quitting a theater production company in Los Angeles in late 2003 O'Connor turned her attention to politics. She became active on the John Kerry blog as a supporter of his candidacy, and through that site discovered Daily Kos, a left-wing political blog. O'Connor established herself as one of the site's most distinctive voices.
O'Connor founded My Left Wing in July 2005, and the site quickly rose to prominence. O'Connor has been a featured guest on The John Gibson Show, a talk-radio program syndicated by Fox News, and has made one appearance to date on Gibson's Fox News television show, The Big Story. In April 2006 she was the subject of a front-page feature article in the Washington Post, by Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist David Finkel.
O'Connor presently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she runs My Left Wing Ñ a rapidly-growning political blog.
References
- The Left, Online and Outraged Washington Post, April 2006.
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