Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan (August 1, 1903 – March 8, 1995) was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States.
Historian David McCullough wrote of Horgan in 1989: "With the exception of Wallace Stegner, no living American has so distinguished himself in both fiction and history.
He worked for the next three years in Rochester as the set designer for a new opera company being started by tenor Vladimir Rosing.
In 1959, Horgan became a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Paul Horgan died at Middlesex County Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, on March 8, 1995.
[12] One of Horgan's most popular works was A Distant Trumpet, a historical novel based on the Apache wars in the Southwest.