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 Joe...
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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 materia...
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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 let...
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John O'Hara
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