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Darcy O'Brien was the best-selling author of A DARK AND BLOODY GROUND; MURDER IN LITTLE EGYPT; TWO OF A KIND, THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS; and MARGARET IN HOLLYWOOD. He won the Ernest Hemingway Award for his first novel, A WAY OF LIFE LIKE ANY OTHER. And his nonfiction work, POWER TO HURT, received the Edgar Allen Poe Award. Morris Dees has said of that book, "It is a fascinating story of how courage and strength triumphed over raw political power. TWO OF A KIND was filmed by the National Broadcasting Company, and POWER TO HURT is currently under production. Darcy, a former English professor, was also the author of a number of academic works, including THE CONSCIENCE OF JAMES JOYCE, and he was a frequent speaker on National Public Radio.
Darcy's last work, THE HIDDEN POPE, was published in 1998, shortly before his sudden death. The book tells the story of the lifelong friendship between Pope John Paul II and Jerzy Kluger, a Jew. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney calls the book, "One of significant stories of the century told by the right storyteller." Heaney adds, "O'Brien's voice is a telling one in all the senses and gives the kiss of life to a subject of great biographical and historical importance; page by page, he makes you want to know what happens next, yet manages to leave you with a feeling of having been privy to a word-changing drama of profoundest spiritual and political consequence."
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