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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Werken van John O'Hara
Collected Stories of John O'Hara: Selected and With an Introduction by Frank MacShane (1984) 220 exemplaren
Four Novels of the 1930s: Appointment in Samarra / Butterfield 8 / Hope of Heaven / Pal Joey (2019) 81 exemplaren
A Rage to Live [1965 film] — Screenwriter — 4 exemplaren
Graven Image 3 exemplaren
Afternoon Waltz 2 exemplaren
One For The Road 2 exemplaren
Stories of Venial Sin 2 exemplaren
Andrea 2 exemplaren
Flight 2 exemplaren
Are We Leaving Tomorrow? 2 exemplaren
Do You Like It Here? 2 exemplaren
Over the River and Through the Woods 2 exemplaren
A Cub Tells His Story 1 exemplaar
The Kids 1 exemplaar
Nil Nisi 1 exemplaar
The Time Element 1 exemplaar
Family Evening 1 exemplaar
Requiescat 1 exemplaar
The Frozen Face 1 exemplaar
Last Respects 1 exemplaar
The Industry And The Professor 1 exemplaar
The Busybody 1 exemplaar
This Time 1 exemplaar
Grief 1 exemplaar
For Help And Pity 1 exemplaar
Short Stories 1 exemplaar
The Big Gleaming Coach 1 exemplaar
All I've Tried To Be 1 exemplaar
The Favor 1 exemplaar
That First Husband 1 exemplaar
The War 1 exemplaar
All the Girls he Wanted 1 exemplaar
Straight Pool {short story} 1 exemplaar
Hope Of Heaven and Other Stories 1 exemplaar
THE SECOND EWINGS 1 exemplaar
Supernatural. Appointment in Samarra 1 exemplaar
The Sun-Dodgers 1 exemplaar
The Dry Murders 1 exemplaar
Eileen 1 exemplaar
The Tackle 1 exemplaar
Price's Always Open 1 exemplaar
The Assistant 1 exemplaar
Fatimas And Kisses 1 exemplaar
The Gambler 1 exemplaar
The General 1 exemplaar
Exactly Eight Thousand Dollars Exactly 1 exemplaar
The Jama 1 exemplaar
James Francis And The Star 1 exemplaar
Late, Late Show 1 exemplaar
Leonard 1 exemplaar
The Neighborhood 1 exemplaar
The Pomeranian 1 exemplaar
The Portly Gentleman 1 exemplaar
The Skeletons 1 exemplaar
The Way To Majorca 1 exemplaar
He Thinks He Owns Me 1 exemplaar
The Lady Takes An Interest 1 exemplaar
The Brothers 1 exemplaar
The Heart Of Lee W. Lee 1 exemplaar
Memorial Fund 1 exemplaar
The Last Of Haley 1 exemplaar
At The Cothurnos Club 1 exemplaar
Interior With Figures 1 exemplaar
No Justice 1 exemplaar
The Weakling 1 exemplaar
Not Always 1 exemplaar
The Skipper 1 exemplaar
Pilgrimage 1 exemplaar
Conversation At Lunch 1 exemplaar
Encounter: 1943 1 exemplaar
Yostie 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- O'Hara, John Henry
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Delaney, Franey
- Geboortedatum
- 1905-01-31
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1970-04-11
- Graflocatie
- Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Geslacht
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- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Niagara Prep School, Lewiston, New York
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- novelist
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reporter
movie critic (toon alle 8)
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- Bryan, C. D. B. (stepson)
- Organisaties
- Collier's
Newsday
Authors Guild
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Authors League of America
Screen Writers Guild (toon alle 23)
National Press Club
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Nassau Club
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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. - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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.… (meer)