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O'Connor has published three novels, all of which have been critically acclaimed: Like China (William Morrow, 1991), A Company of Three (Algonquin Books, 2003), and The Cure. She currently teaches both fiction and nonfiction creative writing at Kent State University. O'Connor has also published a number of short stories. Her two most recent shorter publications are Suki, and The Empathic. The former is a memoir dating back to her undergraduate days, and the latter is a fictional account of a woman with HIV and how she struggles to put her life back together after losing both her husband and her daughter.
O'Connor's novels deal with disparate elements; domestic marital abuse in Like China; then the struggle to balance friendship, love and success in the acting world in A Company of Three and, in The Cure, the flow and complexities of relationships in an extended family, set against a background of illness and wartime life.
O'Connor's fourth novel, The Master's Muse, will be published in May, 2012 by Scribner. It deals with the relationship between Tanaquil LeClercq and George Balanchine.
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