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Dan O'Brien (author)
Daniel Hosler O'Brien (born November 23, 1947, in Findlay, Ohio) is an American author, wildlife biologist, and rancher. Biography Dan O'Brien was born in Findlay, Ohio, on November 23, 1947. He attended Findlay High School and graduated in 1966. He went to Michigan Technological University to play football and graduated with a BS degree in Math and Business from Findlay College in 1970 where he was the chairman of the first campus Earth Day. He earned an MA in English Literature from the University of South Dakota in 1973 where he studied under Frederick Manfred. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University in 1974, worked as a biologist and wrote for a few years before entering the PhD program at Denver University. When he won the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction in 1986 he gave up academics except for occasional short term teaching jobs. O'Brien continued to write and work as an endangered species biologist for the South Dakota Department of Game Fish and Parks and lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Findlay, Ohio
Findlay ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. The second-largest city in Northwest Ohio, Findlay lies about 40 miles (64 km) south of Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. The population was 40,313 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is home to the University of Findlay and is the principal city of the Micropolitan statistical area, Findlay, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. Findlay is the headquarters of Fortune 1000 companies Marathon Petroleum and Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, who rank 22 and 830 on the list respectively. History In the War of 1812, Colonel James Findlay (Cincinnati mayor), James Findlay of Cincinnati built a road and a stockade to transport and shelter troops in the Great Black Swamp region. This stockade was named Fort Findlay in his honor. At the conclusion of the war, the community of Findlay was born. The first town lots were laid out in 1821 by the future Ohio Governor Joseph Vance (Ohio politician), Joseph Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirit Of The Hills
{{Infobox book , image = Spirit of the Hills.jpg , , caption = First edition , name = Spirit of the Hills , author = Dan O'Brien (author) , country = United States , language = English , genre = Western fiction , publisher = Fontana , release_date = 1988 , media_type = Print (Paperback) , pages = 272 pages , isbn = 0006176526 ''Spirit of the Hills'' is a 1988 western mystery novel by Dan O'Brien. Plot Jimmy McVay is shot to death in Toledo, Ohio while buying marijuana and his twenty-five thousand dollars is stolen. Tom McVay, his older brother and a Vietnam veteran, finds out that the murderer is a man named P J Billion from Medicine Springs in South Dakota and sets out to recover the lost money and revenge himself. In the meantime something begins to kill the livestock around Medicine Springs. Some believe that a wolf is the culprit. Buffalo wolves used to roam the prairie but they are exti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Non-fiction Writers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century American Non-fiction Writers
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21st-century American Male Writers
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American Autobiographers
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American Male Novelists
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21st-century American Novelists
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People From South Dakota
This is a list of prominent people who were born in or lived for a significant period in U.S. state of South Dakota. For a larger list by location, see People from South Dakota. Academia * * Vine Deloria Jr., American Indian author, theologian, historian, and activist *Alvin Hansen, economist, Harvard professor; born in Viborg *Arthur Larson, law professor, United States Undersecretary of Labor; born in Sioux Falls *Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of cyclotron, winner of 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics; born in Canton *Lawrence Lessig, internet activist, Harvard Law School professor; born in Rapid City *Brad L. Neiger, public health professor, associate academic vice president; born in Eureka *Theodore Schultz, economist, winner of 1979 Nobel Prize for Economics; born in Arlington Actors and filmmakers * Angela Aames (1956–1988), actress; born in Pierre * Catherine Bach (born 1954), actress; grew up in South Dakota * Bruce Baillie (1931–2020), experimental filmmaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
