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Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (born 1918)

Robert C. O'Brien (author)

Robert Leslie Carroll Conly, better known by his pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for National Geographic magazine. He is best known for his novels Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) and Z for Zachariah (1974), with the former was adapted to the animated film The Secret of NIMH (1982) directed by Don Bluth.

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