Jack O’Keefe, the son of Irish immigrants, earned a doctorate in English from Loyola University. After teaching at Power Memorial Academy in New York and Brother Rice High School in Chicago, he bec...view moreJack O’Keefe, the son of Irish immigrants, earned a doctorate in English from Loyola University. After teaching at Power Memorial Academy in New York and Brother Rice High School in Chicago, he became a Professor of English for thirty-two years at City Colleges. Author of three books on the Irish--Brother Sleeper Agent, Famine Ghost, and Survivors of the Great Irish Hunger--O’Keefe lives with his wife and grandchildren in Chicago.view less