John O'Hara - Wikipedia
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. [1]
County historical society to mark 120th anniversary of author John …
1 day ago · POTTSVILLE — On Jan. 29 and 30, the Schuylkill County Historical Society will mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of John Henry O’Hara, the Pottsville native who is the county’s most ...
John O’Hara: Radio presented dubbed ‘The Voice’ dies aged 80
“John was the man with the dulcet tones....a man of many talents and a decent human,” he said. Outside of his DJ career, Mr O’Hara was a voice for television and radio commercials while also ...
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He Told the Truth About His Time - The New Yorker
Aug 19, 2013 · “To me, O’Hara is the real Fitzgerald.” 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...
John O’Hara’s day in court: After being ... - New York Daily News
Jan 12, 2023 · Attorney John O’Hara, (c) who was wrongfully convicted for voter fraud in 1997, shares a laugh with prosecutor Mark Hale, outside State Supreme Court on Jan. 12, 2017 in Brooklyn after he was...
Justice for John O'Hara: Brooklyn Federal Judge ... - New York Daily News
Apr 6, 2024 · Attorney John O’Hara, (c) who was wrongfully convicted for voter fraud in 1997 leaves Supreme Court in Brooklyn after being exonerated in 2017. 2017. (Jesse Ward for New York Daily News)
John O’Hara | Novelist, Short Stories, Pennsylvania | Britannica
John O’Hara 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. O’Hara was raised in Pottsville, Pa., which appears in his fiction as Gibbsville, a typical small town in the United States.
John O'Hara - Library of America
“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.” —Fran Lebowitz
John O’Hara: “an important American writer who has been …
Sep 23, 2016 · The latest entry in the Library of America series, John O’Hara: Stories brings together sixty short works by the twentieth-century realist described by Edmund Wilson as the “master of the short-story sketch” and by Fran Lebowitz as “the real Fitzgerald.”