John Flanagan
John Flanagan emigrated to the United States in the mid-1950s. He served for three years in the US Army. He was stationed near Paris, where he was a correspondent for the Starts and Stripes, a tabloid newspaper for the military. He later returned to Ireland, where he studied English language and literature in Trinity College, Dublin. He earned a certificate to teach from the Alpha College of English. For his short story The Glazier's Apprentice, Flanagan won the Hennessey Literary Award. He recently published Shay Elliot and Collected Short Stories.
