American novelist Robert O'Connor was born in 1959, and received a B. A. in English/Writing Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego. The State University of New York at Oswego, also known as SUNY Oswego and Oswego State, was founded in 1861 as Oswego Normal School by Edward Austin He also has an M. A. in English from Syracuse University, where he studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. Syracuse University (SU is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. Raymond Clevie Carver Jr ( May 25, 1938 &ndash August 2, 1988) was an American Short story Writer Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a Writer of Fiction and Nonfiction He currently teaches Advanced Fiction and Intermediate Screenwriting at SUNY Oswego and lives in upstate New York with his wife, Donna, and family.
He is the author of one novel, 1993's Buffalo Soldiers, which was adapted into a film.