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

    By Dan O'Brien

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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. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDalkey Archive Press
    Release dateSep 14, 2021
    ISBN9781628974089
    A Story that Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas
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    Dan O'Brien

    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.

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