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About Terry Quinn
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by Tim Atkinson
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In
addition to working extensively in the arts, Terry Quinn writes, consults
and edits in the field of Social Policy Analysis and teaches Creative
Writing at a private college in New York City. His academic background
includes Masters degrees from Harvard, Long Island University and the
University of Chicago.
Mr. Quinn's fiction,
biography and poetry have been published in the United States, Europe,
Asia and Australia by, among others: Little, Brown; St. Martin's Press;
Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Allen & Unwin; Harvill/Collins; and The
Paris Review. His dramas and comedies have been produced in London,
Cambridge, Paris, Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna and Moscow,
as well as on Off Broadway, in regional theaters throughout America and
on National Public Radio.
As an opera and
art song librettist, Mr. Quinn has had world premiere performances at
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall in
New York City, The Brooklyn Historical Society and Chelsea Opera. He has
also composed the score and written the book and lyrics for three music
theater works produced in New York, Savannah and Washington, D.C.
Mr. Quinn is a
member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild and Broadcast Music,
Inc. Notable performers who have appeared in his plays include Norman
Mailer, Norris Church Mailer, George Plimpton, William F. Buckley, Jr.,
Dmitri Nabokov, Calvin Trillin, Mary Karr, Robert Stone, Lee Grant and
Timothy Hutton. He and his wife Jane live in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
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