Dan O’Brien is an award-winning playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter, Isobel.

Dan O’Brien

Paul Watson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of three books, including the 2017 best seller Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition, and the memoir Where War Lives, published in 2007. For over a quarter-century, he was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and The Toronto Star.

Paul Watson

Out of the War Zone: A Conversation Between Paul Watson and Dan O’Brien

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

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Dan O’Brien is an award-winning playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter, Isobel.