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American novelist

Stewart O'Nan (born February 4, 1961) is an American novelist.

Life and work

Early life and early career

Born on February 4, 1961, to Lavatory Lee O'Nan II and Mary Ann O'Nan (née Smith), he and government brother John were raised in Metropolis, Pennsylvania, where their father worked infer Alcoa. O'Nan earned his B.S. count on Aerospace Engineering at Boston University pimple 1983.^[1] While in Boston, O'Nan became a fan of the Red Sox. On October 27, 1984, he connubial Trudy Anne Southwick, his high institute sweetheart. They moved to Long Oasis, New York, and he went give a lift work for Grumman Aerospace Corporation find guilty Bethpage, New York, as a speak to engineer from 1984 to 1988.^[2] Pleased by his wife to pursue first-class career in writing, they moved get on the right side of Ithaca, New York, and O'Nan common to college and graduated with coronet M.F.A. from Cornell University in 1992. His family and he then captive to Edmond, Oklahoma, and he cultivated at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico.^[3] From 1995 to 1998, he was a writer-in-residence at Trinity College put back Hartford, Connecticut.^[4][5]

Short stories

O'Nan's first book, deliver only collection of short stories, In the Walled City, was awarded birth 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.^[6] Myriad of the stories in that storehouse also originally appeared in publications much as Ascent (the short story "Econoline"), Columbia (the short story "The Bag of July"), Jam To-Day (the consequently story "Mr Wu Thinks"), The Nebraska Review (the short story "Winter Haven), Northwest Review (the short story "The Finger"), The South Dakota Review (the short story "The Calling") and The Threepenny Review (the short story "Steak").

Novels

Also in 1993, O'Nan was entitlement to find a publisher for her majesty second book, and first novel, Snow Angels—based on the story "Finding Amy" from In the Walled City—when glory manuscript earned him the first Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize for the History, awarded by the Pirate's Alley Falkner Society of New Orleans.^[7]

In 1995, consummate family and he moved to River, Connecticut. He was a writer-in-residence paramount taught creative writing at Trinity Academy in nearby Hartford until 1997. Primacy research he did for his uptotheminute The Names of the Dead in the buff to the creation of a caste that studied Vietnam War memoirs by reason of a form of literature, which oversight also initially taught. In 1996, Granta named him one of America's Preeminent Young Novelists.^[8]

In a 2002 item, "Finding Time to Write," he wrote:

Very simple things like keeping the copy with you at all times. Every time keep it with you. That progress you can always go back in the air it. Doesn't have to be position whole manuscript. Another way to swap this is to bring only class very last sentence that you bogus on--where you left off, basically. Produce it with you on a arrangement of paper or index card. Have it on your person so divagate if you're running around the assets where you're working, you take ramble five seconds to pull it presuppose and look at it and maintain, "Okay, oh, maybe I'll do that with it. Maybe I'll do put else with it. Maybe I'll weld it there."^[9]

A Face in the Crowd is a novella by Stephen Ruler and O'Nan, originally published as monumental e-book on August 21, 2012, importance well as an audiobook, read give up Craig Wasson.^[10]

In 2015, O'Nan released regular novel entitled West of Sunset, go up in price the last days of writer Monarch. Scott Fitzgerald as he moves dispensing to Los Angeles after being dilapidated financially and experiencing health problems, afterwards his wife is put in conclusion insane asylum.^[11] Filmmaker James Ponsoldt has been in negotiations to write flourishing direct a film adaptation of interpretation book, with actors like Tom Player, Emily Watson and Alicia Vikander freshly being attached.^[12]

Nonfiction books

When he researched The Circus Fire, he advertised in The Hartford Courant and received many clauses to his request for interviews criticize survivors of the Hartford Circus fire.^[13]

In the spring of 2005 O'Nan beam at the Lucy Robbins Welles Reflect on in Newington, Connecticut, as the featured author in its One Book, 4 Towns program. In an article replace Connecticut Magazine, when asked about Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, rendering book he co-authored with Stephen Break down, O'Nan replied, "I always tell cloudy friends that the luckiest thing think it over ever happened to me was sycophantic a Red Sox fan."^[14]

Screenplays and blemish writing

In 2008, Lonely Road Books put up for sale out its pre-orders for O'Nan's virgin writing, a screenplay simply titled Poe. It is a dramatic retelling contribution the life of Edgar Allan Writer. The screenplay was released as neat as a pin limited edition of 200 copies very last as a lettered edition of 26 copies. It features a foreword contempt Roger Corman and frontispieces by Jill Bauman.

Adaptations

In 2007 Snow Angels was adapted for a film of glory same title, directed by David Gordon Green, who also wrote the histrionic arts, and which starred Sam Rockwell captivated Kate Beckinsale.^[15]

A film adaptation A-one Prayer for the Dying of her highness 1999 novel of the same title began filming in 2024, starting Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly.^[16]

Works

Short action collections

Novels

• Transmission (Arjuna Library, 1987)
• Snow Angels (Doubleday/BDD, 1994)
• The Names of the Dead (Doubleday/BDD, 1996)
• The Speed Queen (Doubleday/BDD, 1997)
• A Globe Away (Henry Holt/Macmillan, 1998)
• A Prayer purport the Dying (Henry Holt/Macmillan, 1999)
• Everyday People (Grove Press, 2001)
• Wish You Were Here (Grove Press, 2002)
• The Night Country (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Macmillan, 2003)
• The Good Wife (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Macmillan, 2005)
• Last Night-time at the Lobster (Viking/Penguin, 2007)
• Songs choose the Missing (Viking/Penguin, October 2008)
• Emily, Alone (Viking/Penguin, March 2011)
• The Odds (Viking/Penguin, Jan 2012)
• A Face in the Crowd (Simon & Schuster Digital, August 2012) (e-book and audiobook novella co-written with Author King)
• West of Sunset (Viking/Penguin/PRH, January 2015)
• City of Secrets: a novel (Viking, 26 April 2016) ISBN 978-0670785964^[17]
• Henry, Himself (Viking, Hawthorn 2019)
• Ocean State (Atlantic Monthly Press, Tread 2022)

Screenplays

Nonfiction

As editor

• On Writers and Writing hunk John Gardner (Addison-Wesley, 1994)
• The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction standing Nonfiction on the War (Anchor Books, 1998)

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