John O'Hara

Martin Kich (Wright State University)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 31 Jan 1905
Died 11 Apr 1970
Activity 1930-1970

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

O'Hara's Works

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John O'Hara had a long and distinguished literary career, most notably as a novelist and as a writer of short stories. In the three and a half decades following the publication of his first novel,

Appointment in Samarra

, O'Hara wrote twelve novels, five novellas, fifteen collections of short stories (with many of the stories selected for republication in five other substantial and highly regarded collections), nine published or produced plays, three credited screenplays (along with several unproduced screenplays and uncredited work on a half-dozen other films), and three collections of essays. More than 400 of his stories were published in magazines, including some 300 in the

New Yorker

, and for extended periods he was also a regular columnist for

Newsweek

Collier's

, and

Holiday

. His…

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Citation: Kich, Martin. "John O'Hara". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 October 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5147, accessed 23 November 2024.]