Stephen O’Connor will discuss his most recent book, and debut novel, in which he uses contemporary documents and narrative fiction to explore the fraught “relationship" between Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemmings. This talk will appeal to students of history and fiction as O’Connor works at the intersection of both.
Stephen O’Connor teaches in the MFA writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the novel, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, as well as two collections of short fiction, Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue, and of two works of nonfiction, "Will My Name Be Shouted Out?": a Memoir and Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed.