O’Nan is the author of 17 critically-acclaimed books of fiction, including the bestsellers Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, Emily, Alone, West of Sunset, and most recently, City of Secrets. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and named by Granta as a Best Young American Novelist, O’Nan is one of our country’s most important and treasured writers.

In conjunction with his four-day stay as the Cockefair Writer in Residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he discusses his craft and career in a conversation with Angela Elam of KCUR-FM’s New Letters on the Air.

Co-presented by the Writers at Work Round Table, the Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair at UMKC, and the UMKC English Department.