- Candace O'Connor
Candace O'Connor (born
January 27 ,1950 ) is aSt. Louis, Missouri -based freelance writer and editor.The author of a soon-to-be-released history of Washington University's
George Warren Brown School of Social Work , O'Connor's recent book projects include a history ofWashington University in St. Louis 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", adocumentary film 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 has two daughters. She is the sister of
Kyrie O'Connor .
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