Daniel O'Keefe (writer)
Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe (February 25, 1928 – August 29, 2012) was an editor at Reader's Digest,[1] author, and the inventor of Festivus, an annual secular holiday now celebrated on December 23.[2] His son, Dan O'Keefe, was a writer for the Seinfeld[3] television show and incorporated the family holiday into an episode of the program,[1] and in 2005 published The Real Festivus.[4]
O'Keefe published the book Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic in 1982.[5] The Los Angeles Times Book Review called this book "a spectacular synthesis of sociology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis... a tour de force of accessible scholarship." [6] The New York Times Book Review called it "a powerful explication of how deeply magic is embedded in society,"[7] and Commonweal dubbed it "a potential classic." [8]
Festivus
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O'Keefe invented Festivus in 1966 to commemorate his wife's and his first date. Their son, Dan, later worked as a screenwriter for the American television show Seinfeld, and during the 1997 season introduced Festivus to the public in a Seinfeld episode named "The Strike".
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- ↑ Dan O'Keefe at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ O'Keefe, Dan. The Real Festivus. Perigee, 2005.
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