Richard O'Connor Papers

Collection

Identifier: SpC MS 0371

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The papers provide a record of Richard O'Connor's literary career. They include book length manuscripts, outlines for works, essays, and correspondence with publishers including Doubleday and Company, Little, Brown and Company, McGraw Hill Book Company, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Viking Press.

Dates

Creation: undated

Creator

O'Connor, Richard, 1915-1975 (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Information on literary rights available in the repository.

Biographical Note

Richard O'Connor was an American actor, newspaper reporter, and author of biographies, popular histories, Western sagas, and murder mysteries. For his mysteries he used the pseudonyms Frank Archer, John Burke, and Patrick Wayland. He was born in 1915 in La Porte, Ind., and attended schools in Milwaukee. His biography, Bat Masterson, was the basis for a television series of the same name. Toward the end of his life he lived in Ellsworth, Maine.