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 the century." In fact, few-even those who denigrated...

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 the century." In fact, few--even those who denigrated...

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 career as the creator of fifteen novels, six published...

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 Pottsville, Pa., the eldest of eight children. He was...