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4 unusual facts about Peter Orner


Michigan Quarterly Review

In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.

Peter Orner

A film version of one of Orner’s stories, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and director Rob Jones is currently in production and stars Edward Asner, star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Fort Apache The Bronx, and Up.

He has also worked as human rights observer in Chiapas, Mexico, a cab driver in Iowa City, and for the sewer department in Highland Park, Illinois where once he worked side by side with Chicago-based journalist and author of College: The Best Five Years of Your Life, Alex Gordon.

His older brother is Eric Orner, the creator of the comic The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.



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