John O'Hara
John OHara (Jan 31, 1905 – April 11,1970) 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,
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John OHara (Jan 31, 1905 – April 11,1970) 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 and Ten North Frederick, which won the National Book Award, and he had more stories published in the New Yorker than anyone in the history of the magazine. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level.
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