Darcy O'Brien

Darcy O'Brien (July 16, 1939, in Los Angeles, California – March 2, 1998, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was an award-winning American 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, 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, which was adapted into a made-for-television film called The Case of the Hillside Stranglers, starring Richard Crenna.

Darcy O'Brien
Born(1939-07-16)July 16, 1939
Los Angeles, California
DiedMarch 2, 1998(1998-03-02) (aged 58)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Alma materPrinceton University
University of Cambridge
University of California, Berkeley
Occupations
  • Author
  • literary critic
  • professor at the University of Tulsa
Children1
Parent(s)George O'Brien
Marguerite Churchill
RelativesOrin O'Brien (sister)
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