Awards & Winners

Darcy O'Brien

Date of Birth 16-July-1939
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Author, Novelist
Darcy O'Brien was an award-winning 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. In 1985, he wrote a book about the Hillside Stranglers entitled Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers which was adapted into a made-for-television film called The Case of the Hillside Stranglers starring Richard Crenna.

Awards by Darcy O'Brien

Check all the awards nominated and won by Darcy O'Brien.

1997


Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Honored for : Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Murder in Little Egypt

1978


Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Honored for : A Way of Life, Like Any Other
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Fiction)