A story that happens : on playwriting, childhood, & other traumas / Dan ÒBrien.

"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 A Story that Happens – 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."--Provided by publisher.