Discipline: Literature

Stewart O'Nan

Discipline: Literature
Region: Avon, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995
More: stewart-onan.com
Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist. O'Nan's first book, and only collection of short stories, In the Walled City, was awarded the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Many of the stories in that collection also originally appeared in publications such as Ascent (the short story "Econoline"), Columbia (the short story "The Third of July"), Jam To-Day (the short 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"). In the spring of 2005 O'Nan spoke at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library in Newington, CT, as the featured author in its One Book, 4 Towns program.

Studios

Sorosis

Stewart O'Nan worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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