Edward Conlon

New York City police detective Edward Conlon is the author of the memoir Blue Blood, a National Book Award finalist that is now available in paperback.

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Ah, Wilderness!, All God’s Chillun Got Wings, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill. O’Neill was my high school literary hero. I’m still in awe of how he could take a rough and often wretched past and remake it as a nostalgic comedy in Ah, Wilderness!; a brutal naturalistic work like Journey; and, in the most stunning leap, to reimagine his parents’ marriage as “mixed” in All God’s Chillun. There was something terrible and wonderful in each transformation: It meant you could make any kind of story from any experience.

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