About 1852 he came to the United States, in the process changing his name to Fitz James and thenceforth he devoted his attention to literature.
On leaving college he went to London, and in the course of four years spent his inheritance of £8,000, meanwhile editing a periodical in aid of the World's Fair of 1851. He attended the University of Dublin, and is believed to have been at one time a soldier in the British Army. He was born Michael O'Brien in County Cork, and was very young when the family moved to Limerick, Ireland. Amongst his other works are "What Was It?" (1889), "My Wife's Tempter", "The Child Who Loved a Grave", and "The Golden Ingot". To the latter he sent "The Diamond Lens" (1858) and "The Wondersmith" (1859), which are unsurpassed as creations of the imagination, and are unique among short magazine stories. He likewise wrote for the New York Saturday Press and The Atlantic Monthly. His first important literary connection was with Harper's Magazine, and beginning in February 1853 with The Two Skulls, he contributed more than sixty articles in prose and verse to that periodical. Subsequently he wrote for The Home Journal, The New York Times, and The American Whig Review. His earliest writings in the United States were contributed to The Lantern.
While he was in college he had shown an aptitude for writing verse, and two of his poems-"Loch Ine" and "Irish Castles"-were published in The Ballads of Ireland (1856). Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an author and is often considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction.
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