John Oller

John Oller is an American biographer, historian, and former Wall Street attorney.[1][2]

Books

White Shoe (2019)

White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business--and the American Century[3] is a history of the American white-shoe firm.[1]

The Swamp Fox (2016)

The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution is a biography of American guerrilla warrior Francis Marion.[4]

American Queen (2014)

American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague: Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal is a biography of Washington hostess Kate Chase.[5]

An All-American Murder (2014)

An All-American Murder is about the 1975 murder of 14-year-old Christie Lynn Mullins in Columbus, Ohio, a case that went unsolved for 40 years.[6] Oller, a student at Ohio State University in Columbus when the murder occurred, began investigating the case in 2013.[6] He had just finished writing American Queen, and stumbled into the cold case on a website for amateur unsolved-homicide sleuths as he was looking for a new writing project.[6] In 2015 the Columbus police department credited Oller with tracking down the information that solved the case; after a renewed investigation, the police concluded that Mullins was murdered by Henry Newell Jr., who had died of cancer in September 2013, at age 63.[6]'

Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew (1997)

Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew is a biography of American actress Jean Arthur.[7][2]

References
  1. Levinson, Marc (20 March 2019). "'White Shoe' Review: Lawyering Up the 20th Century (book review)". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  2. Drabelle, Dennis (15 June 1997). "Shooting From The Hip". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century, by John Oller, Penguin Random House, 2019. ISBN 978-1524743253
  4. Quyn, C.D. (1 January 2017). "The Swamp Fox". Seattle Book Review. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  5. Coale, Sam (14 December 2014). "The Gilded Age Diva Who Enchanted a RI Senator (book review)". Providence Journal. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  6. "Finding Christie Mullins' murderer-40 years too late". Columbus Monthly. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  7. Evans, Everett (3 November 1997). "ACTRESS JEAN ARTHUR'S A MYSTERY WOMAN NO LONGER (book review)". Chicago Tribune. Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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