Career
O’Brien worked as an editor of the Printer"s Ink magazine, and moved on from this endeavor to found Art magazine before becoming a first lieutenant of artillery in World War I. By 1920, he had written several novels, including Trodden Gold, An Abandoned Woman, and his anonymous autobiography, Wine, Women, and War. He became the literary editor of the Chicago Daily News in 1928, where he also contributed the column “All Things Considered,” which he wrote until his death in 1947.
