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Richard Connell

American author and journalist (1893–1949)

For other people named Richard Connell, see Richard Connell (disambiguation).

Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist. He is most notable for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924). Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time. His stories were published in The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's magazines. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 (Best Original Story) for the movie Meet John Doe (1941), directed by Frank Capra and based on his 1922 short story "A Reputation".

Life and career

Connell was born on October 17, 1893, in Poughkeepsie, New York,^[1] the son of Richard E. Connell and Mary Miller Connell. He began his writing career for The Poughkeepsie Journal, and attended Georgetown College for a year before going to Harvard University. While at Harvard, Connell edited The Lampoon and The Crimson. He su

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Please remember in your prayers Richard J. "Ric" Connell, 91, who died Saturday, Feb. 22, after a brief stay in hospice. Connell, of Edina, was a longtime professor of philosophy at St. Thomas.

Connell taught at Marquette University for 11 years before coming to St. Thomas. He joined the St. Thomas Philosophy Department faculty in 1963 and was promoted to full professor in 1969. He chaired the Philosophy Department in the mid-1970s and won the Professor of the Year award in 1990. He retired in 1990 after 27 years on the faculty.

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Connell was the author of Matter and Becoming (1966), Substance and Modern Science (1988), The Empirical Intelligence (1988), Nature's Causes (1995), and From Observables to Unobservables in Science and Philosophy (2000). He also was the author of Logical Analysis, a logic text published in multiple editions.

During WW II, Connell served in the U.S. Army's Third Ranger Battalion. His long recovery from war wounds, spent in Sicily, led to his conversion to Catholicism.

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