Darcy O'Brien(1939-1998)

Prize-winning novelist (1978 Ernest Hemingway Award, 1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award) as well as professor of English, first at Pomona College, in California, and later at the University of Tulsa. In 1985 he published "Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers", upon which was based the 1989 TV miniseries starring BG: Richard Crenna.