Marcy O’Brien, local columnist
“Book Talk & Signing”
Saturday November 16th
11 am
About the Author
Marcy O’Brien will be reading and signing her book, Rounding Third… on ___(date). She will happily answer all questions and discuss the writing process.
Marcy’s humor and human-interest column appears weekly in three regional newspapers in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. She has written feature articles for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Post, Yankee Magazine, Shipmate Magazine, the Chautauquan, and many others.
A late bloomer, Marcy began writing as she approached her dotage. It became Career #7. A Massachusetts native, she went from Boston University to a dozen years at American Airlines. She taught for four years in the business curriculum at Alfred State College in New York, and spent a few decades in designer fashion, interior design, and small business ownership. It is yet to be determined whether these varied endeavors are the result of a low threshold of boredom or just being downright nosy. Probably both.
After qualifying for Medicare, she assumed one last challenge as Executive Director of a busy historic theatre in her adopted home town. She stayed eleven years, shepherding Struthers Library Theatre to the prestigious National Historic Theatre of the Year award.
She won the 2023 Erma Bombeck Global Writing Competition in addition to two previous honorable mentions. Recently, she won First Prize in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual writing contest in the Lifestyle category.
Marcy lives in Warren, Pennsylvania, sharing her husband, Dear Richard, with their psychotic Maine Coon cat, Finian. She has two adult children who live in places she likes to visit and two absolutely perfect grandchildren.
