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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.
27 de ene. de 2016 · Showbiz insider Darcy O’Brien’s story of a glittering world gone bad is narrated by an inimitable teen. Rachel Cooke. Tue 26 Jan 2016 04.00 EST.
4 de mar. de 1998 · Darcy O'Brien, who turned a Hollywood childhood into award-winning fiction, taught literature at two universities and became the best-selling author of several ''true-crime'' books, died on...
“How is it that this minor comic masterpiece could ever have gone out of print? Darcy O’Brien’s 1977 novel…takes us into an alien culture, Hollywood in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and evokes that kitschy world with spectacularly deadpan humor.” — Michael Dirda, The Atlantic Monthly
2 de mar. de 1998 · Darcy O'Brien (Author of The Hillside Stranglers) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Darcy O'Brien's books. Join Goodreads. Darcy O'Brien’s Followers (35) Born. in Los Angeles, The United States. July 16, 1939. Died. March 02, 1998. edit data.
Estados Unidos, 1939 – 1998. nació en Los Ángeles, hijo de padres actores. Estudió en la Universidad de Princeton y en la de California para luego ser profesor en la Univesridad de Tulsa, Oklahoma. Un estilo de vida como cualquier otro, su primera novela, obtuvo el Pen/Hemingway Award.
Darcy O'Brien, an awardwinning author and professor of literature, died of a heart attack Mar. 2, 1998, at his home in Tulsa, Okla. Born in 1939 to film stars George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill, he graduated from Beverly Hills H.S., where he was senior class president.
