Dan O'Neill (writer)
Dan O'Neill (Daniel T. O'Neill) is an Alaskan writer. He is the author of three books of literary nonfiction: The Firecracker Boys (1994), an exposé of the 1958 plan (called Project Chariot) to excavate a harbor in Alaska using nuclear devices; The Last Giant of Beringia (2004), detailing the history of scientific thought about the Bering land bridge and geologist David Hopkin's central role in establishing current theory; and A Land Gone Lonesome (2006), an exploration of the history, prehistory, and culture of the upper Yukon River and its frontier inhabitants.