Joe Connelly is an American writer. Connelly is best known for his first novel, "Bringing Out the Dead". Connelly grew up in a working class family in Warwick, New York. He dropped out of Colgate University and, before publishing his first novel, worked as a paramedic at St. Clare's Hospital in Hell's Kitchen for about a decade. He wrote in his spare time over that period, … Wikipedia
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