Bob O’Connor, author of Historical Fiction Novels Based in the mid-19th Century
Posted on October 18, 2007
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Bob O’Connor lives in Charles Town, West Virginia, close to most of the sites of his books. O’Connor has always collected books on two historical characters — John Wilkes Booth and John Brown. As he says “Imagine my surprise when I ended up living in Charles Town, West Virginia — a place they both had visited in late 1859. Thus, the inspiration for the first novel The Perfect Steel Trap: Harpers Ferry 1859. The book has been named a Finalist in the 2006 Best Book Awards by USA Book News.”
The inspiration for O’Connor’s second novel, The Virginian Who Might Have Saved Lincoln, was the intrigue of finding a man, Ward Hill Lamon, who was so close to Abraham Lincoln, yet most people he talked to had never heard about him. In fact, he is mentioned in most non-fiction books about Lincoln (there are 44,781 listed on Amazon.com), but no book has ever been written about him.”
O’Connor’s next book will most likely be called “Catesby-Eye Witness to the Civil War.” It is about an African American blacksmith who was captured by John Brown and released when Brown was captured at Harpers Ferry. The book follows his struggle to become a free man, as he witnesses events at Antietam Creek, Gettysburg, the Battle of Olustee (FL) and Andersonville Prison.
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Will you be at the HFCWRT meeting Wed? I will have hard copies of all the stuff I have on Wes Culp. Doug Perks is copying off the story from Snyder’s book. This will be all that I have on Culp.
Jim Price
jimprice@citlink.net
Bob,
It was great meeting you yesterday.
Ken and Terry Tice
please contact me regarding a potential program. thank you.