Robert C. O'Brien

Robert Leslie Carroll Conly, known by his pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and journalist born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1918. He worked as a journalist for Newsweek, Washington Times-Herald, and National Geographic, where he was a senior assistant editor from 1970 until his death. Best known for his children's novels Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971, Newbery Medal winner) and The Silver Crown (1968), as well as adult novels like Z for Zachariah (1974, posthumous Edgar Award winner), his works often feature science fiction and speculative elements adapted into films like The Secret of NIMH.Robert C. O'Brien (author) Wikipedia), Simon & Schuster