Biography EssayJohn O'Hara claimed to be the hardest working author in the United States, and one of his biographers, Matthew J. Bruccoli, believes that "O'Hara published more words than any other maj...
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The American novelist and short-story writer John O'Hara (1905-1970) had an extraordinary ability to reproduce the look and sound of contemporary America.John O'Hara was born on Jan. 31, 1905, in Pott...
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John O'Hara claimed to be the hardest working author in the United States, and one of his biographers, Matthew J. Bruccoli, believes that "O'Hara published more words than any other major writer of t...
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The years since his death in 1970 have not been kind to the literary reputation of John O'Hara . Increasingly fewer readers, but especially younger ones, are aware of O'Hara's enormously productive c...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Voss
[John O'Hara] was concerned mainly with depicting manners and customs in the tradition of Sinclair Lewis, Lardner, and Fitzgerald. (p. 279)
[The stories of Pal...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury
[O'Hara's work is] a fiction of social absurdity.
For O'Hara's fiction was deeply consistent with the man, as it must be: it is a mat...
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Critical Essay by John Updike
"Selected Letters of John O'Hara" … cannot but sweeten the reputation of a notoriously irascible and hypersensitive author. (p. 200)
These...
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A Daily News poll has Mike Bloomberg bettering Rudy Giuliani as a mayor and as a presidential candidate.
Mike Bloomberg denies and flirts with the idea of a presidential run.
Sen. Chuck Hagel t...
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In the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel. "I definitely hope so," he replied.He was a man of lightning wit and great learning. His first nov...
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In Paris, "Bar Americain" means a place that serves liquor as well as wine and beer. So the first thing that catches your eye when you walk into celebrity chef Bobby Flay's new restaurant is the en...
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America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along...
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America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all alon...
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John O'Hara
John (Henry) O'Hara
Critical Essay by Arthur Voss
The Morning Read: Monday, May 14, 2007
