Varley O'Connor
Varley O'Connor
Varley O'Connor is an American novelist and short story writer. She is an associate professor at Kent State University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.