A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by O'Brien, Dan

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628973839)

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A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by O'Brien, Dan

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

$13.95
A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by O'Brien, Dan

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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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 Happens--first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the US Air Force Academy--offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.

Author: Dan O'Brien
ISBN-10: 1628973838
ISBN-13: 9781628973839
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50d
By Dan O'Brien
By Dan O'Brien
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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.

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