Professor William O'Rourke

William O'Rourke is the author of The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left; Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles, 1970-1992 ; Campaign America '96: The View From the Couch; Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch; and the novels The Meekness of Isaac , Idle Hands , Criminal Tendencies , and Notts . He is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the director of its graduate creative writing program. He wrote a weekly political column for the Chicago...See more

William O'Rourke is the author of The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left; Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles, 1970-1992 ; Campaign America '96: The View From the Couch; Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch; and the novels The Meekness of Isaac , Idle Hands , Criminal Tendencies , and Notts . He is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the director of its graduate creative writing program. He wrote a weekly political column for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2001 until 2005. See less