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 (2015); a history of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Surgery (2014); a history of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (2012); a history of Northwest Community Hospital called Rooted in Community; Reaching New Heights (2009); a history of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work called What We Believe (2007); 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 is the sister of Kyrie O'Connor.