Stephen O'Connor - "The Spy in the City of Books"

Stephen O'Connor

Stephen O’Connor’s fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines. He is the author of a recently released collection of short stories entitled Smokestack Lightning (Loom Press, 2010). He was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, a frequent setting for his writing, and attended university in Amherst and Boston, Massachusetts, and Dublin, Ireland. While working and traveling in France, he became fascinated with stories of the French Resistance. The novel The Spy in the City of Books arose out of this interest, and out of interviews with a former OSS agent who served in Occupied France as a liaison between London and the French Forces of the Interior. O’Connor lives in Lowell with his wife Olga and their two children.