Twenty years ago, Stewart O’Nan, M.F.A. ’92, left a potentially lucrative career — as a structural engineer for the aerospace industry — to be a writer. He entered Cornell’s M.F.A. program in fiction and has since become one of the Creative Writing Program’s most commercially successful authors, with several best-selling fiction and nonfiction books.
Engineering gave him an appreciation for precision and a stylistic approach to his craft, he said at a Feb. 4 Literary Luncheon at the home of Professor Robin Davisson and President David Skorton.
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2/17/2011: Cornell Interview
From Writers at Cornell:
O’Nan read from his work on February 17, 2011, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.
Interviewed by J. Robert Lennon.
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 