Candace O'Connor


Candace O'Connor is a St. Louis, Missouri-based freelance writer.
Her recent book projects include a history of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Neurology ; a history of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Surgery ; a history of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology ; a history of Northwest Community Hospital called Rooted in Community; Reaching New Heights ; a history of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work called What We Believe ; a history of Washington University in St. Louis titled ; a history of St. Louis Children's Hospital called Hope and Healing: St. Louis Children's Hospital, The First 125 Years ; Meet Me in the Lobby, The Story of Harold Koplar & the Chase Park-Plaza ; and A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman.
In 2001, O'Connor won a regional Emmy Award for Oh Freedom After While: The Missouri Sharecropper Protest of 1939, a documentary 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 is the sister of Kyrie O'Connor.