Margaret in Hollywood

Darcy O'Brien

Morrow, 1991 - Fiction - 297 pages

Margaret In Hollywood by Darcy O'Brien tells the story of Margaret Spencer, who, too old to be an adolescent and too young to be a woman, seeks her fortune in the raucous Hollywood of the 1920s. O'Brien creates a superb heroine caught between her own romantic and professional longings and her manipulative mother.

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 21

About the author

Darcy O'Brien 1939-1998 Darcy O'Brien was an award-winning author of fiction and literary criticism born on July 16, 1939 in Los Angeles, California. O'Brien was best known for his work in the genre of true crime. His first novel, A Way of Life, Like Any Other, won the 1978 Ernest Hemingway award for best first novel. In 1997, O'Brien won the Edgar Allen Poe award for Power to Hurt. His other works include: Two of a Kind: The Story of the Hillside Stranglers, Murder in Little Egypt, Moment by Moment and The Hidden Pope. O'Brien attended Princeton University and University of Cambridge, and received a master's degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1965 to 1978 he was a professor of English at Pomona College. In 1978 he moved to Tulsa, and taught at the University of Tulsa until 1995. On March 2, 1998, O'Brien died of a heart attack in Tulsa.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Margaret in Hollywood
• Author: Darcy O'Brien
• Publisher: Morrow, 1991
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 11, 2008
• ISBN: 0688091695, 9780688091699
• Length: 297 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / General; Fiction / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio