Darcy O'Brien

Darcy O'Brien (born 16 July 1939 Los Angeles; † 2 March 1998 in Tulsa ) was an award-winning writer of fictional literature and literary criticism. He was known for his works about true crimes Best. 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 under the title The Case of the Hillside Stranglers with Richard Crenna in a leading role for television,

Biography

Darcy O'Brien was born in Los Angeles to the Hollywood silent film actor George O'Brien and actress Marguerite Churchill, a lot of times co-star John Wayne.

O'Brien attended Princeton University and the University of Cambridge, and achieved a Masters and Ph.D. 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 until 1995 at the University of Tulsa.

O'Brien was married three times and had a daughter names Molly O'Brien. His sister is Orin O'Brien, a double bassist, member of the New York Philharmonic is.

O'Brien died of a heart attack in Tulsa on March 2, 1998.

Awards

O'Brien was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 1997.

Selected Works

• A Way of Life, Like Any Other ( 1979)
• Moment by moment, novelization of the screenplay by Jane Wagner ( 1979) From moment to moment. Heyne, München 1979, ISBN 3-453-01044-2

• The unknown pope Karol Wojtyla and Jerzy Kluger - the story of their lifelong friendship, the relationship between Catholics and Jews changed from the Amerikan. by Anita Krätzer and Bernd Rullkötter, Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1999 ISBN 3-7857-0964-1