{"product_id":"a-story-that-happens-on-playwriting-childhood-other-traumas-9781628973839","title":"A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, \u0026 Other Traumas","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eA Story that Happens\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist whose recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama \u0026amp; Performance Art and the UK's Fenton Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. \u003ci\u003eTrue Story: A Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e of O'Brien's plays was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2023, and in 2021 his collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eA Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, \u0026amp; Other Traumas\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Dalkey Archive in the US and by CB Editions in the UK. His poetry collections are\u003ci\u003e Survivor's Notebook, Our Cancers, New Life, Scarsdale, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e War Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e. His plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Body of an American\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the PEN USA Award, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe House in Scarsdale\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a PEN America Award. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561581187346,"sku":"9781628973839","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27ea8a41-a190-4c2a-b040-cc1b8535b118.jpg?v=1731848375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-story-that-happens-on-playwriting-childhood-other-traumas-9781628973839","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}