Howard Vincent O’Brien (1888–1947) was an American novelist and journalist best known for his memoir ''Wine, Women and War'' and his columns for the Chicago Daily News, "All Things Considered" and "Footnotes".WorldCat Identities
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and fighting in

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. O’Brien worked as an editor of the ''

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'' magazine, and moved on from this endeavor to found ''Art'' magazine before becoming a first lieutenant of artillery in

. By 1920, he had written several novels, including ''Trodden Gold'', ''An Abandoned Woman'', ''Thirty'', and his anonymous autobiography, ''Wine, Women, and War''. He became the literary editor of the '' Chicago Daily News'' in 1928, where he also contributed the column "All Things Considered", which he wrote until his death in 1947.

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Howard O’Brien Papers
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