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Richard O’Connor
RICHARD O’CONNOR (1915-1975) was an American author of some 60 books, mostly biographies and popular history.
He was born in LaPorte, Indianapolis in 1975. Before turning to writing full-time, he ...view moreRICHARD O’CONNOR (1915-1975) was an American author of some 60 books, mostly biographies and popular history.
He was born in LaPorte, Indianapolis in 1975. Before turning to writing full-time, he worked as an actor, appearing in two Broadway plays, and a newspaper reporter, working for The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston American, The Los Angeles Herald‐Express and Variety, the theatrical weekly.
O’Connor wrote biographies of Jack London, Bret Harte and Ambrose Bierce, as well as Pacific Destiny, a history of America’s activities in the Far East, and The Spirit Soldiers, a narrative of the Boxer Rebellion. His other works included ‘The German Americans,’ ‘Iron Wheels and Broken Men,’ and ‘The Golden Summers,’ an informal history of the Newport, R.I. colony in its palmy days. He was also the author of a series of popular Western biographies on Bat Masterson, the basis for a television series, on Wild Bill Hickok, and on Pat Garrett.
He also published several titles under the pseudonym John Burke, including The Ballad of Baby Doe, Duet in Diamonds, Buffalo Bill and Winged Legend. He also wrote some popular murder mysteries, published under the names Patrick Wayland and Frank Archer.
O’Connor died on February 15, 1975 in Ellsworth, Maine, at the age of 59.view less