John Oller


John Oller is an American biographer, historian, and former Wall Street attorney.

Books

''White Shoe'' (2019)

White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business--and the American Century is a history of the American white-shoe firm.

''The Swamp Fox'' (2016)

The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution is a biography of American guerrilla warrior Francis Marion.

''American Queen'' (2014)

American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague: Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal is a biography of Washington hostess Kate Chase.

''An All-American Murder'' (2014)

An All-American Murder is about the 1975 murder of 14-year-old Christie Lynn Mullins in Columbus, Ohio, a case that went unsolved for 40 years. Oller, a student at Ohio State University in Columbus when the murder occurred, began investigating the case in 2013. He had just finished writing American Queen, and stumbled into the cold case on a website for amateur unsolved-homicide sleuths as he was looking for a new writing project. In 2015 the Columbus police department credited Oller with tracking down the information that solved the case; after a renewed investigation, the police concluded that Mullins was murdered by Henry Newell Jr., who had died of cancer in September 2013, at age 63.'

''Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew'' (1997)

Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew is a biography of American actress Jean Arthur.