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John O’Hara – Wikipedia. John O'Hara, um 1944. John Henry O’Hara (* 31. Januar 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania; † 11. April 1970 in Princeton, New Jersey) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 2 Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen. 3 Werke (Auswahl) 3.1 Romane. 3.2 Kurzgeschichten-Bände. 4 Verfilmungen.
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. [1] He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8.
- January 31, 1905, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- April 11, 1970 (aged 65), Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
7. Apr. 2024 · 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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19. Aug. 2013 · By Lorin Stein. August 19, 2013. “To me, O’Hara is the real Fitzgerald.” —Fran Lebowitz, The Paris Review, 1993. Born in 1905 in Pennsylvania coal country, the son of a small-town doctor,...
Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934, is the first novel by American writer John O'Hara (1905–1970). It concerns the self-destruction of the fictional character Julian English, a wealthy car dealer who was once a member of the social elite of Gibbsville (O'Hara's fictionalized version of Pottsville, Pennsylvania ).
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22. Sept. 2016 · Short stories and poems, plus author interviews, profiles, and tales from the world of literature. Charles McGrath on the late fiction writer John O’Hara (who published stories in The New...
According to Matthew J. Bruccoli’s The O’Hara Concern: A Biography of John O’Hara, over 100,000 copies of From the Terrace were sold in cloth, with another 2.5 million in paperback. Both books, like the bulk of O’Hara’s fiction, concerned the American upper class: graduates of the Ivy League, white-shoe lawyers, country club patrons.
