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

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
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 09/14/2021
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781628973839

About the Author
O'Brien, Dan: - Dan O'Brien is an internationally produced and published playwright and poet whose recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama, the Horton Foote Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, two PEN America Awards, and a shortlisting for an Evening Standard Theatre Award. His plays include The Body of an American and The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, among many others. He is also the author of four books of poetry: War Reporter, which received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize, Scarsdale, New Life, and the new collection Our Cancers: A Chronicle in Poems.