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William O’Rourke is the author of four novels, The Meekness of Isaac, Idle Hands, Criminal Tendencies, and Notts, and five works of nonfiction, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, Signs of the Literary Times, Campaign America ’96, Campaign America 2000, and On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir. He is the editor of On the Job: Fiction about Work by Contemporary American Writers, and he co-edited the collection Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a CAPS grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. He was the first James Thurber Writer at the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, and the founding director of the University of Notre Dame’s graduate creative writing program. A fortieth anniversary edition of his first book, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, is to appear in 2012. ...

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