Dan O'Brien

A Story that Happens (eBook, ePUB)

On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happensfirst written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the US Air Force Academyoffer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628974089
• Artikelnr.: 62411233

Autorenporträt

Dan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist whose recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art and the UK's Fenton Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. True Story: A Trilogy of O'Brien's plays was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2023, and in 2021 his collection of essays, A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas, was published by Dalkey Archive in the US and by CB Editions in the UK. His poetry collections are Survivor's Notebook, Our Cancers, New Life, Scarsdale, and War Reporter. His plays include The Body of an American, winner of the PEN USA Award, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, and The House in Scarsdale, winner of a PEN America Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.