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| birth_name = Richard Patrick Dooling
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| birth_place = [[Omaha, Nebraska]], U.S.
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| alma_mater = [[Saint Louis University]]<br>[[Saint Louis University School of Law]]
| genre = [[Literary fiction]], [[legal thriller]], [[satire]], [[Horror fiction|horror]]▼
| period = 1992–present
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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 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[miniseries]] [[Kingdom Hospital|''Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital'']].
Dooling's first novel, ''Critical Care'' (1992), was made into a 1997 [[Critical Care (film)|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 [[The New York Times|''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's [[short story]] "Bush Pigs" was read as part of ''[[Selected Shorts]]'', a program produced by Symphony Space in [[New York City|New York]] and aired on [[National Public Radio|NPR]]. The performance was later included on the CD ''Getting There from Here'', a compilation of listeners' favorites from the program.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.symphonyspace.org/estore/item/3
His nonfiction book ''Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment'' (1996) is an examination of the social and legal implications of profane speech. In ''[[Rapture for the Geeks|Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ]]'' (2008) he explores the implications of machine intelligence overtaking human intelligence. He has also written op-ed pieces for ''The New York Times'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[The National Law Journal]]''.
Dooling was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], [[Nebraska]], 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, Missouri|St. Louis]] firm [[Bryan Cave]]. For
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