Stacey O’Brien

Stacey O’Brien is the author of Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (Simon & Schuster/Free Press). Recounting her 19-year relationship with an 18-inch Barn Owl adopted from Caltech, where she worked as a lab assistant in “a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls flew freely from office to office,” the memoir has been a A New York and Los Angeles Times bestseller, Audubon Magazine Editor’s Choice, People Magazine 4-out-of-4-star pick, and Indie Top Ten favorite, and has been published in German, Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese), Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Hungarian and a special U.K. edition.  Author Sy Montgomery (The Good Good Pig) proclaimed, “Stacey O’Brien has captured the essence of the soul of an unforgettable owl. Affectionate, quirky, joyous and wise, Wesley shows us the Way of the Owl — the way to God and grace. This book is destined to become a classic.”