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19 ago 2013 · He Told the Truth About His Time. “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 ...
About the Author. John O’Hara (1905–1970) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Championed by Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dorothy Parker, he wrote seventeen novels, including Appointment in Samarra, his first; BUtterfield 8, which was made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor; Pal Joey ...
29 nov 2019 · John O’Hara (Pottsville, 1905 – Princeton, 1970) è stato lo scrittore del New Yorker per antonomasia, arrivando a pubblicarvi 247 racconti in quarant’anni di collaborazione, malgrado fosse cordialmente detestato da tutti gli editor che si trovavano a doverci lavorare assieme.
23 mag 2018 · John O'Hara was born on Jan. 31, 1905, in Pottsville, Pa., the eldest of eight children. He was brought up as a Catholic. Expelled from Fordham Preparatory School and the Keystone State Normal School, he graduated, as class valedictorian, from the Niagara, N.Y., Preparatory School in 1924, but his father's death prevented his entering college.
20 apr 1970 · O’Hara had little patience with writers of the ’60s; he was of an earlier era, a contemporary of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis. “I’ve never been able to read Norman ...
John O'Hara. John O’Hara nacque a Pottsville in Pennsylvania il 31 gennaio 1905. Di famiglia irlandese in una cittadina WASP, per le ristrettezze non poté realizzare il sogno di studiare a Yale, divenne reporter per Herald Tribune e Time, con un occhio attento alla struttura classista della società americana.
27 dic 2018 · “John O’Hara, as a doctor’s son, and as a newspaperman, and as a roisterer and the holder of many part-time jobs, saw exceptionally much of the seamy, disappointed side of American life, and part of his veracity was not to melodramatize it, or to forget that the human will gleams in even the dingiest folds of the social fabric.”
