Richard Dooling
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Richard Patrick Dooling (born 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
Dooling's first novel, Critical Care (1992), was made into a 1997 movie of the same title, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring James Spader and Kyra Sedgwick. His next three novels—White Man's Grave (1994), Brain Storm (1998), and Bet Your Life (2002)—were all New York Times Notable Books. In conjunction with Kingdom Hospital, he also wrote The Journals of Eleanor Druse (2004), writing as Eleanor Druse, a character in the miniseries.
Dooling was born in Omaha, and is a graduate of Saint Louis University (1976) and Saint Louis University School of Law (1987). He has been a practicing attorney and developer of web-based legal tools for the St. Louis firm Bryan Cave. His only book-length work of nonfiction is Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment (1996), an examination of the social and legal implications of profane speech. He has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The National Law Journal.
As of 2007, Dooling lives in Omaha with his wife, Kristin, and their four children.
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