Richard McCann

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Richard McCann


Born
December 12, 1949

Died
January 25, 2021

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Richard McCann was a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He lived in Washington, D.C., where he was a longtime professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.
A gay writer,[1] he was the author of Mother of Sorrows, a collection of linked stories. It won the 2005 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares and was also an American Library Association Stonewall Book Award recipient, as well as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Amazon named it one of the Top 50 Books of 2005.
McCann's book of poems, Ghost Letters, won the 1994 Beatrice Hawley and Capricorn Poetry awards. With Michael Klein, he edited Things Shaped in Passing: More 'Poets for Life' Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. His stories, poems
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Mother of Sorrows

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Ghost Letters

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Into the Light: From An Abu...

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Just a Man: A Story of Triu...

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Nights of 1990

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994
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De Glemte Børn

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JUST A BOY

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The Diarist

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The Fading Light: A Collect...

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European Data Protection Le...

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“We are all of us blue babies. At critical seconds, we all lack necessary air.”
Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows