Candace O'Connor

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Candace O'Connor (born January 27, 1950) is a St. 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 of Washington 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, 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 has two daughters. She is the sister of Kyrie O'Connor.