Will My Name Be Shouted Out by Stephen O'connor

by Stephen O'Connor

A writing instructor at a New York City junior high school traces his attempts to educate youngsters from broken homes and violent neighborhoods, recounting how he invited his students to write about the slaying of a classmate. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

STEPHEN OCONNOR is the author of two collections of short fiction, Rescue and Here Comes Another Lesson, and of two works of nonfiction, Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, a memoir, and Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, narrative history.

His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, Poetry Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Quarterly, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International, and many other places. His essays and journalism have been published in The New York Times, DoubleTake, The Nation, Agni, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The New Labor Forum, and elsewhere.

He is a recipient of the Cornell Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing from Columbia University; the Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research by Artists and Writers from the American Antiquarian Society; and the DeWitt Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York City and teaches fiction and nonfiction writing in the MFA programs of Columbia and Sarah Lawrence.

For additional information, please visit:www.stephenoconnor.net
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Reviews

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well-written, moving memoir by a writer in the schools, working in New York City. His students write about tragic events, and O'Connor turns their writings into 2 plays that the students themselves perform.