Candace O'Connor is a

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, whic ...

-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 Medicine Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1891, the School of Medicine has 1,260 students, 604 of which are pursuing a medical degree with ...

Department of Surgery (2014); a history of the

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), established 1931, is an academic radiology center associated with the Washington University School of Medicine, located within the Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. In additi ...

(2012); a history of

Northwest Community Hospital Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) is a 489-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1959, the hospital serves 200,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients annually. The hospital operates a Level 2 Trauma Cent ...

called ''Rooted in Community; Reaching New Heights'' (2009); a history of the

George Warren Brown School of Social Work The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is a school for the training of social science researchers. The Brown School offers a Master of Social Work (MSW), a Master of Public Health (MPH), a Master of Social Policy, a PhD in Socia ...

called ''What We Believe'' (2007); a history of

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University i ...

titled ''Beginning a Great Work: Washington University, 1853-2003'' (2004); a history of St. Louis Children's Hospital called ''Hope and Healing: St. Louis Children's Hospital, The First 125 Years'' (2006); ''Meet Me in the Lobby, The Story of Harold Koplar & the Chase Park-Plaza'' (2005); and ''A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman'' (2003). In 2001, O'Connor won a regional Emmy Award for ''Oh Freedom After While: The Missouri Sharecropper Protest of 1939'', a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

shown on PBS nationally that she produced with Steven J. Ross. For more than two decades, her historical articles, profiles, medical articles, and other features have appeared in a variety of local and national publications. O'Connor lives in St. Louis with her husband. She is the sister of

Kyrie O'Connor Kyrie O'Connor (born November 24, 1954) is a writer and editor. Biography Born in Rochester, New York, she graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1976. She is the sister of Candace O'Connor. She worked for 14 years at the ''Hartford Cou ...

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Candace O'Connor
s website {{DEFAULTSORT:Oconnor, Candace 1950 births Writers from Missouri Living people Washington University in St. Louis people