Richard O’Connor

Background

O’Connor, Richard was born on March 10, 1915 in Louisiana Porte, Indiana, United States. Son of Richard Edward and Hilda (Waldschmidt) O’C.

Education

Educational public schools, Milwaukee.

Career

Newspaperman in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles and New York City, 1936-1957. Free lance, from 1957. Author: Ambrose Bierce, 1967.

Bret Harte, 1966.

Jack London, 1964. The Lost Revolutionary, 1967. Black Jack Pershing, 1961.

Gould’s Millions, 1962. Bat Masterson, 1957; Hell’s Kitchen, 1958.

Company Q, 1957; Pacific Destiny, 1969.

The Cactus Throne, 1971. The Oil Barons, 1971. Home: Ellsworth, Maine.

Achievements

• Richard O’Connor has been listed as a notable newspaperman, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Olga Derby, December 28, 1939.