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After getting most of his secondary education in England and France, David L. O'Neal attended
Princeton University and has an MA. He then served three years as an officer in the U. S. Marine
Corps acting as a French language officer for an Interrogation and Translation School at Camp
Lejeune in North Carolina. After working for several rare book dealers, as well as for the
Bibliographical Society of America, O'Neal established his own antiquarian book selling business in
Boston, which became among the foremost rare book and manuscript businesses in the United States.
Beginning in 1973, the firm more issued than one hundred and thirty catalogues and lists of
interesting and precious books and manuscripts from the 14th century to the 20th century.
O’Neal retired from the book business in 2001 and now, as a second career, devotes his time to
writing non-fiction, short fiction, and poetry. Recent creative work has appeared in Sensations
Magazine, Vision Magazine, The New York Times, Magazine of the Parrot Society UK, Bird
Keeper (England),Bird Keeper (Australia), Writers Digest, Creativity Connection, Writers' Digest,
Mississippi Crow, The Marin Poets Anthology, Red Heart - Black Heart (anthology), Voices of Bi-
Polar Disorder (anthology), Street Spirit, Open Minds Quarterly, Two Hawks Quarterly,
Relationships and Other Stuff: Stories from Men (anthology), The Poetry of Science (anthology), etc.
O'Neal's other writings include professional articles on book selling, book collecting, and analytical
bibliography in such journals as The American Book collector, The Papers of the
Bibliographical Society of America, and the Newsletter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of
America.
David O'Neal lives in San Francisco with his wife, Carolyn, and parrot, Streak, and has two sons
and two grandchildren nearby. His main hobbies are reading and writing, sailing, squash and
tennis.
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