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John O'Hara (1905-1970) was an American writer of short stories, novels, plays and essays. He was praised by Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but his reputation declined after his death.
John O’Hara (born Jan. 31, 1905, Pottsville, Pa., U.S.—died April 11, 1970, Princeton, N.J.) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction stands as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s through the 1940s.
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John O’Hara Wrote about the Things Rich People Do. Why Isn’t He Still Famous? Library of America releases a volume of O'Hara's acclaimed short stories.
American writer John Henry O'Hara contributed short stories to the New Yorker and wrote novels, such as BUtterfield 8 (1935) and Ten North Frederick (1955). Best-selling works of John Henry O'Hara include Appointment in Samarra. People particularly knew him for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue.
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Aug 19, 2013 · Born in 1905 in Pennsylvania coal country, the son of a small-town doctor, John O’Hara leapt to prominence with his first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), about the downfall of a car...
Dec 27, 2018 · John O’Hara, “Joey on the Cake Line”. “O’Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character, how profound the superficial can be, and how clothes can truly make the man.”.
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