Patrick O'Leary

Patrick O'Leary (Saginaw, Michigan, September 13, 1952) is an American science fiction author and ad copy writer.

O'Leary's first published novel was Door Number Three (1995). In 1998, his novel The Gift was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

O'Leary's most widely known work is probably the poem "Nobody Knows It But Me," which was written for an advertising campaign for the Chevy Tahoe and read in the commercial by James Garner.

Selected Bibliography

Novels

• Door Number Three (1995)
• The Gift (1997)
• The Impossible Bird (2002)

Collections

• Other Voices, Other Doors (2001)

Shortfiction

• 23 Skidoo (1997)
• The Black Heart (2001)
• The Me After the Rock (2002)
• What Mattered Was Sleep (2002)

Essays

• Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1995) (1995)
• Letter (1997)
• More Than Meat - Van Morrison (1997)
• How I Wrote a Science Fiction (1997)
• Death & The Critic (1998)
• The Wizard of the Ineffable, or I Tried to Analyze Gene Wolfe and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt (2000)
• Letter: Senior/Dorsey (NYRSF, April 2000) (2000)

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