Richard Dooling

Richard Patrick Dooling (born 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.

Dooling's first novel, Critical Care (1992), was made into a 1997

His nonfiction book Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment (1996) is an examination of the social and legal implications of profane speech. In Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2008) he explores the implications of machine intelligence overtaking human intelligence. He has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The National Law Journal.

Dooling was born in

• Novels
  • Critical Care (1992)
  • White Man's Grave (1994)
  • Brain Storm (1998)
  • Bet Your Life (2002)
  • The Journals of Eleanor Druse (writing as Eleanor Druse) (2004)
• Nonfiction
  • Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment (1996)
  • Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ (2008)
• As contributor or editor
  • Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich. Modern Library 20th Century Rediscoveries, 2004 [1948]. (Introduction)
  • Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories (2008) (Roe #5)

References

External links

• Richard Dooling's website
• Richard Dooling at
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