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Mark O'Connell

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Bio

MARK O'CONNELL is the author of To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The Guardian. He lives in Dublin with his family.

Mark O'Connell Books

A Thread of Violence book cover

A Thread of Violence

Mark O'Connell
The Passenger: Ireland book cover

The Passenger: Ireland

The Passenger
Notes from an Apocalypse book cover

Notes from an Apocalypse

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The Close Encounters Man book cover

The Close Encounters Man

Mark O'Connell
To Be a Machine book cover

To Be a Machine

Mark O'Connell
Modern Brides & Modern Grooms book cover

Modern Brides & Modern Grooms

Mark O'Connell
The Good Father book cover

The Good Father

Mark O'Connell
The Marriage Benefit book cover

The Marriage Benefit

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