Kyrie O'Connor (born November 24, 1954) is a writer and editor.

Biography

Born in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in W ...

, she graduated cum laude from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

in 1976. She is the sister of

Candace O'Connor Candace O'Connor is a St. Louis, Missouri-based freelance writer. Career Her recent book projects include a history of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Neurology (2015); a history of the Washington University School of ...

. She worked for 14 years at the '' Hartford Courant'', rising to the rank of assistant managing editor for features. O'Connor led the creation and/or redesign of many of that newspaper's feature sections. She left in 2003 for the ''

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'', where she became deputy managing editor/features. At the ''Chronicle'', she wrote a daily memo to her staff about trends in popular culture and discoveries she made about life in Houston, eventually turning the memo into "MeMo", one of the ''Chronicle''s first

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s. she remains deputy managing editor of that newspaper and a frequent panelist on the

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show " Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!". O'Connor was named interim editor of the '' San Antonio Express-News'' on September 20, 2011, replacing Robert Rivard.

References

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