Stephen O'Connor teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, an account of his years teaching creative writing at an inner-city school in New York, and a collection of short fiction, Rescue.
"O'Connor tells these stories lucidly and gracefully. He is
particularly evocative in his descriptions of the transportation
conditions the children endured, the conditions of urban poverty in
New York in the 1800s, and of a typical day of a New York newsboy."
--Ruth Wallis Herndon "New York Times Book Review"
"O'Connor's immensely readable book vividly portrays Brace and the
world in which he operated. Orphan Trains not only offers us a trip
to the past but provides historical context crucial to
understanding and evaluating present-day attitudes and policies
about poverty, families, and children." --Merle Rubin "Los Angeles
Times"
"With grace and precision, and a novelist's sense of time, place,
and character, Stephen O'Connor has thoughtfully retraced the
gripping, often harrowing tale, showing us in the process how a
great city came both to abandon and to redeem some of its most
vulnerable citizens." New York--Ric Burns, director of the PBS
series New York
"In chronicling one of the first ambitious, privately sponsored
social welfare programs in the United States, Mr. O'Connor provides
an absorbing portrait of the nation at a moment of wrenching
change, a moment that has in many ways not yet passed. . . . Orphan
Trains is a moving and instructive story, and as he tells it, Mr.
O'Connor never loses sight of the real people and real lives at its
center."--Richard Bernstein "New York Times"
"With grace and precision, and a novelist's sense of time, place,
and character, Stephen O'Connor has thoughtfully retraced the
gripping, often harrowing tale, showing us in the process how a
great city came both to abandon and to redeem some of its most
vulnerable citizens." New York--Ric Burns, director of the PBS
series New York
"In chronicling one of the first ambitious, privately sponsored
social welfare programs in the United States, Mr. O'Connor provides
an absorbing portrait of the nation at a moment of wrenching
change, a moment that has in many ways not yet passed. . . .
Orphan Trains is a moving and instructive story, and as he
tells it, Mr. O'Connor never loses sight of the real people and
real lives at its center."--Richard Bernstein "New York Times"
O'Connor tells these stories lucidly and gracefully. He is
particularly evocative in his descriptions of the transportation
conditions the children endured, the conditions of urban poverty in
New York in the 1800s, and of a typical day of a New York newsboy.
--Ruth Wallis Herndon "New York Times Book Review"
--Merle Rubin "Los Angeles Times"
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