Dan O'Neill

Who is Dan O'Neill?

Dan O'Neill is an Alaskan journalist and writer. Born in San Francisco, California in 1950, Dan O'Neill came to Alaska in the 1970s. Settling in Fairbanks, he did a variety of things, such as dog mushing, working as a laborer, conducting oral history interviews, and as a journalist producing radio and video productions on historical topics. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of three Alaskan themed books. From 1991-1993 he worked for the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, doing project interviews about the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve and the Gates of the Arctic National Park, digitized at Project Jukebox. He was an opinion columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from 1998–2002.