JimConnor

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Industry Education
Occupation Professor, Creative Writing
Location Rahway, NJ, United States
Introduction I teach creative writing at Kean University in New Jersey. Many years ago, I was a Jesuit priest, but now I live with my wife, three border collies, and a cat, the Empress of the Known Universe. I have five books published, mostly nonfiction history of science.
Interests Writing Fiction, Photography, Astronomy, History, Baseball, Music
Favorite Movies Chronicles of Riddik, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter movies, Hamlet (Branaugh), Much Ado About Nothing (Branaugh), Midsummer Night's Dream (James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, 1935)
Favorite Music B.B. King, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Carmina Burana, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Mussorgsky's Boris Godonov
Favorite Books Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, The Divine Comedy, Virgil's Aeneid, Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad