William O'Rourke
Professor
Specialty
Fiction writing
Degrees
B.A., English, University of Missouri-Kansas City; M.F.A., Writing, Columbia University
Profile
William O'Rourke is the author of four novels, The Meekness of Isaac, Idle Hands, Criminal Tendencies, and Notts, and four works of nonfiction, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, Signs of the Literary Times, Campaign America '96,Campaign America 2000, and On Having a Heart Attack: a Medical Memoir. He is the editor of On the Job: Fiction about Work by Contemporary American Writers; he has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a CAPS grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. He was the first James Thurber Writer at the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, and he wrote a weekly political column for the Chicago Sun-Timesbetween 2001 and 2005.
Selected Publications
On Having a Heart Attack: a Medical Memoir. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Campaign America 2000: The View from the Couch. Chicago: PreviewPort Editions, 2001.
Campaign America ’96: The View from the Couch. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1997.
Notts: A Striking Novel. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1996.
Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles, 1970-1992. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Criminal Tendencies. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987.
Idle Hands. New York: Delacorte Press, 1981.
The Meekness of Isaac. New York: Crowell, 1974.
The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left. New York: Crowell, 1972.
O’Rourke, William, ed. On the Job: Fiction about Work by Contemporary American Writers. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.
Contact Information
465 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7377
worourke@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~worourke/