Darcy O'Brien

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Darcy O'Brien (July 16, 1939, in Los Angeles, California – March 2, 1998, in

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

O'Brien died of a heart attack[3] 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.
  OCLC 3203215
• Moment by Moment, novelization of screenplay by Jane Wagner (1979)^[4]
• 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 (1998)
• The Conscience of James Joyce (2016)

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