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, |