John O'Hara (1) (1905–1970)
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John Henry O'Hara was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on January 31, 1905. Many of his novels and short stories were set in fictionally named Pennsylvania towns with the main themes centering on class conflict and status. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1928; and during his life, sold 225 näytä lisää stories to the magazine. His first collection, The Doctor's Son and Other Stories (1935) was followed by twelve more. Pal Joey (1940) was made into a Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and later was adapted into a film starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth. Some of his published novels include Appointment in Samarra (1934), A Rage to Live (1949), The Lockwood Concern (1965), and The Good Samaritan and Other Stories (published posthumously in 1974). Ten North Frederick (1955) won the National Book Award and Butterfield 8 (1935) and From the Terrace (1958) were adapted into movies in 1960. He died from cardiovascular disease on April 11, 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Collected Stories of John O'Hara: Selected and With an Introduction by Frank MacShane (1984) 220 kappaletta
Four Novels of the 1930s: Appointment in Samarra / Butterfield 8 / Hope of Heaven / Pal Joey (2019) 81 kappaletta
A Rage to Live [1965 film] — Screenwriter — 4 kappaletta
Graven Image 3 kappaletta
Afternoon Waltz 2 kappaletta
One For The Road 2 kappaletta
Stories of Venial Sin 2 kappaletta
Andrea 2 kappaletta
Flight 2 kappaletta
Are We Leaving Tomorrow? 2 kappaletta
Do You Like It Here? 2 kappaletta
Over the River and Through the Woods 2 kappaletta
A Cub Tells His Story 1 kappale
The Kids 1 kappale
Nil Nisi 1 kappale
The Time Element 1 kappale
Family Evening 1 kappale
Requiescat 1 kappale
The Frozen Face 1 kappale
Last Respects 1 kappale
The Industry And The Professor 1 kappale
The Busybody 1 kappale
This Time 1 kappale
Grief 1 kappale
For Help And Pity 1 kappale
Short Stories 1 kappale
The Big Gleaming Coach 1 kappale
All I've Tried To Be 1 kappale
The Favor 1 kappale
That First Husband 1 kappale
The War 1 kappale
All the Girls he Wanted 1 kappale
Straight Pool {short story} 1 kappale
Hope Of Heaven and Other Stories 1 kappale
THE SECOND EWINGS 1 kappale
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The Sun-Dodgers 1 kappale
The Dry Murders 1 kappale
Eileen 1 kappale
The Tackle 1 kappale
Price's Always Open 1 kappale
The Assistant 1 kappale
Fatimas And Kisses 1 kappale
The Gambler 1 kappale
The General 1 kappale
Exactly Eight Thousand Dollars Exactly 1 kappale
The Jama 1 kappale
James Francis And The Star 1 kappale
Late, Late Show 1 kappale
Leonard 1 kappale
The Neighborhood 1 kappale
The Pomeranian 1 kappale
The Portly Gentleman 1 kappale
The Skeletons 1 kappale
The Way To Majorca 1 kappale
He Thinks He Owns Me 1 kappale
The Lady Takes An Interest 1 kappale
The Brothers 1 kappale
The Heart Of Lee W. Lee 1 kappale
Memorial Fund 1 kappale
The Last Of Haley 1 kappale
At The Cothurnos Club 1 kappale
Interior With Figures 1 kappale
No Justice 1 kappale
The Weakling 1 kappale
Not Always 1 kappale
The Skipper 1 kappale
Pilgrimage 1 kappale
Conversation At Lunch 1 kappale
Encounter: 1943 1 kappale
Yostie 1 kappale
A Good Location 1 kappale
Associated Works
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Avustaja — 37 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- O'Hara, John Henry
- Muut nimet
- Delaney, Franey
- Syntymäaika
- 1905-01-31
- Kuolinaika
- 1970-04-11
- Hautapaikka
- Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
- Koulutus
- Niagara Prep School, Lewiston, New York
- Ammatit
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
screenwriter
reporter
movie critic (näytä kaikki 8)
radio broadcaster
press agent - Suhteet
- Bryan, C. D. B. (stepson)
- Organisaatiot
- Collier's
Newsday
Authors Guild
Dramatists Guild
Authors League of America
Screen Writers Guild (näytä kaikki 23)
National Press Club
Silurians
Nassau Club
Field Club
Century Association
Raquet Club
Beach Club
Loyal Legion
National Golf Links of America
Kew-Teddington Observatory Society
Hessian Relief Society
Sigma Delta Chi
Pottsville Journal
Pennsylvania Railroad
Time magazine
Pittsburgh Bulletin-Index
Warner Bros. - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Honorary citizen of Philadelphia (1961)
John O'Hara House on National Register of Historic Places
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This is certainly the plight of Julian English, the protagonist of this tale of upper middle class WASPS in 1930s Gibbsville, Illinois. Julian's the owner of a prosperous Cadillac dealership, husband to a wife who genuinely loves him (in her whiny 1930s way), with a social life that revolves around the local country club and its WASPy members. But in the course of an eventful two days, fate relentlessly hunts our golden boy down, the result of a combination of misbehaviour, mischance, misapprehension, and not an insignificant measure of hubristic overreach, as Julian (along with many other characters in this novel) consistently reaches for more than he needs or wants.
O'Hara's claim to fame is that he was, at one time, the most prolific contributor of tales to the New Yorker magazine, and boy does this read like something Woody Allen would pen. It's well written and crafted, but the incessant whininess of the characters can get a little fatiguing. With the exception of a subplot involving a low-level hood named Al Grecco, everyone here is dealing with WASP-y first-world problems: attending the "right" college, driving the "right" car, marrying the "right" spouse, living in the "right" neighborhood, attending the "right" social events and parties, drinking, gossiping, and judging each other relentlessly. The crimes that destroy Julius aren't crimes in the legal sense, but crimes against the norms of his class: throwing a drink into the face of a social peer, drinking too much, humiliating his wife.
Almost 100yrs later, some aspects of this tale - the country club dances & raccoon coats, the male-centric marriages, the insane drinking - may feel like a time capsule. Alas, however, the central themes of this tale - social gamesmanship and snobbery, hypocrisy, hubris & self-emoliation - are timeless.… (lisätietoja)