The Circus Fire (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Stewart O’Nan
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1944
- Setting: Hartford, Connecticut
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, 1940’s, Connecticut, Fire, Circuses or carnivals
- Locales: Hartford, CT
Stewart O’Nan is the author of a collection of short stories, In the Walled City (1993, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize), and six novels—Snow Angels (1994), The Names of the Dead (1996), The Speed Queen (1997), A World Away (1998), A Prayer for the Dying (1999, which earned the 1999 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel), and Everyday People (2001). A sometime editor for Vietnam Reader magazine, he also edited the anthology The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction...
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