Skip to main content

Burke Butler

Burke Butler graduated from the University of Chicago in 2007. Her essay “A Brief History of His Time” is her first published piece.

Author

A Brief History of His Time

When my father was sixteen, he drove off a cliff. He took three classmates with him: his best friend, who was a fellow member of the football team, and two girls. Two of his passengers died. My father, in the driver’s seat, survived almost [...]