Stewart O’Nan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stewart O'Nan
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1961(1961-02-04)
Age	63
Birthplace	Pittsburgh
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Aquarius

Stewart O'Nan Biography

Stewart O'Nan is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 4, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Born on February 4, 1961, to John Lee O’Nan II and Mary Ann O’Nan (née Smith). He and his brother John were raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where their father worked for Alcoa. He earned his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Boston University in 1983. While in Boston, O’Nan became a fan of the Red Sox. On October 27, 1984, he married Trudy Anne Southwick, his high school sweetheart. They moved to Long Island, New York, and he went to work for Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York, as a test engineer from 1984 to 1988. Encouraged by his wife to pursue a career in writing, they moved to Ithaca, New York, and O’Nan returned to college and graduated with his M.F.A. from Cornell University in 1992. His family and he then moved to Edmond, Oklahoma, and he taught at the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of New Mexico. From 1995 to 1998, he was a writer-in-residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1995, his family and he moved to Avon, Connecticut. He was a writer-in- residence and taught creative writing at Trinity College in nearby Hartford until 1997. The research he did for his novel The Names of the Dead led to the creation of a class that studied Vietnam War memoirs as a form of literature, which he also initially taught. In 1996, Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists.

In the spring of 2005 O’Nan spoke at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library in Newington, Connecticut, as the featured author in its One Book, 4 Towns program. In an article for Connecticut Magazine, when asked about Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, the book he co-authored with Stephen King, O’Nan replied, “I always tell my friends that the luckiest thing that ever happened to me was becoming a Red Sox fan.”

In 2008, Lonely Road Books sold out its pre-orders for O’Nan’s latest writing, a screenplay simply titled Poe. It is a dramatic retelling of the life of Edgar Allan Poe. The screenplay was released as a limited edition of 200 copies and as a lettered edition of 26 copies. It features a foreword by Roger Corman and frontispieces by Jill Bauman.

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”).

Stewart O'Nan Net Worth

Stewart O'Nan is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stewart O'Nan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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

Also in 1993, O’Nan was able to find a publisher for his second book, and first novel, Snow Angels—based on the story “Finding Amy” from In the Walled City—when the manuscript earned him the first Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel, awarded by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans. In 2007 Snow Angels was adapted for a film of the same title, directed by David Gordon Green, who also wrote the screenplay, and which starred Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.

In a 2002 article, “Finding Time to Write,” he wrote:

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Stuart Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Stewart O'Nan celebrates birthday on February 4 of every year.

Who is Stewart o Nan?

Stewart O’Nan is the author of numerous books, including West of Sunset, The Odds, Emily Alone, Snow Angels, Songs for the Missing, and A Prayer for the Dying. His 2007 novel, Last Night at the Lobster, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Where does Stewart O'Nan live now?

Stewart O’Nan’s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists. He lives in Pittsburgh.