O'HARA, JOHN

1905–70, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Pottsville, Pa. He worked at a number of jobs and ultimately became a newspaperman before the appearance of his first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934). The book, an immediate success, began O'Hara's long career as a highly commercial and popular writer. Among his other novels are Butterfield 8 (1935), Pal Joey (1940; musical comedy adaptation, 1941), A Rage to Live (1949), Ten North Frederick (1955), From the Terrace (1958), The Lockwood Concern (1965), and The Ewings (1972). O'Hara, who wove his tales around themes of class, sex, and booze, has been called a photographic, acid observer of American urban life. Some critics believe his best work is in his collections of short stories, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker magazine; these include The Doctor's Son (1935), Hellbox (1947), Assembly (1961), The Cape Cod Lighter (1962), The Horse Knows the Way (1964), and Good Samaritan and Other Stories (1974).

See Selected Letters of John O'Hara (1978), ed. by M. J. Bruccoli; biographies by F. Farr (1973), M. J. Bruccoli (1975, repr. 1995), F. MacShane (1980), and G. Wolff (2003).

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The Fiction of John O'Hara
Book by Edward Russell Carson; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961
Subjects: Fiction--Technique, O'Hara, John--1905-1970--Criticism And Interpretation
THE FICTION OF JOHN OHARA SERIES TITLE PAGE Critical Essays...volume are used with the permission of John OHara, for which both author and publisher...RUSSELL CARSON: The Fiction Of John OHara UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Library...
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The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists
Book by Edmund Wilson; Colt Press, 1941
Subjects: American Fiction--History And Criticism, American Literature--California, Cain, James M--(James Mallahan)--1892-1977, O'Hara, John--1905-1970, Saroyan, William--1908-, Steinbeck, John--1902-1968
...11 JOHN OHARA 17...Horace McCoy, Richard Hallas, John OHara, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck...for something better than either. JOHN OHARA -16- John OHara JOHN OHARA. also...
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Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography
Book by Hazel Smith; Liverpool University Press, 2000
Subjects: City And Town Life In Literature, Difference (Psychology) In Literature, Gay Men In Literature, Homosexuality And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, New York (N.Y.)--In Literature, O'Hara, Frank--Views On Sexual Orientation
...people for granting me interviews: Donald Allen, John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Morris Golde, John Gruen, Barbara Guest, Grace Hartigan, Kenneth...The New York Poets including Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch , the Black Mountain...
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John Ford: A Bio-Bibliography
Book by Bill Levy; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Ford, John--1894-1973, Ford, John--1894-1973--Bibliography, Motion Picture Producers And Directors--United States--Biography
JOHN FORD John Ford, mid-1920s. (Courtesy of Indiana Universitys The Lilly Library and Dan Ford) JOHN FORD A Bio-Bibliography Bill Levy Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing...
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The John Updike Encyclopedia
Book by Jack De Bellis; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Updike, John--Chronology, Updike, John--Encyclopedias
...He has also written on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Branch Cable, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John OHara, Theodore Dreiser, * T. S. Eliot, Eugene ONeill, Robert Frost, John Marquand, Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder...
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"Finding out Things like That": Film and the Search for Reality in BUtterfield 8
Journal article by Jennifer Haytock; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 41, 2008
Subjects: Authors--Works, Butterfield 8 (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, O'Hara, John--Works, Reality--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...the "immorality" of the image. But John OHara investigated the process of negotiating...for "An Artist is His Own Fault": John OHara on Writers and Writing. 4/ The genre...Hearst." 1935. Critical Essays on John OHara. Ed. Phillip B. Eppard. New York...
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"And Everyone and I Stopped Breathing": William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and the News of the Day in Verse
Journal article by Paul R. Cappucci; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 39, 2003
Subjects: Dean, James, O'Hara, Frank, Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while...26-29) Once again, OHara draws us into his particular...Doubleday, 1998. Lowney, John. "The Post-Anti-esthetic Poetics of Frank OHara." Contemporary Literature 32...
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"And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name": John Ashbery, the Plastic Arts, and the Avant-garde
Journal article by David Sweet; Comparative Literature, Vol. 50, 1998
Subjects: Art criticism, Ashbery, John, Literary criticism, Writers, Writing
...by David Sweet ALTHOUGH JOHN ASHBERY carefully enumerated...avant-garde influences on Frank OHara in his introduction to The Collected...who "Had run his race and won,"John Shoptaw has suggested that...poets literary destinies. If OHara did not live to "hear" all this...
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John Wayne: Hero with a Thousand Faces
Journal article by Richard D. McGhee; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 16, 1988
Subjects: Actors, Evacuations & rescues, Heroism & heroes, Motion pictures, Roles, Violence, Wayne, John (1907-79)
...hero is a face set against such a world. In his comic roles, John Wayne is a romantic hero of love triumphant. He combats manners...desire fulfilled. Sean Thornton sees Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen OHara) tending sheep, and he does something that a Wayne comic hero...
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The Plainsong of the Double Dream of Spring: John Ashbery, Olivier Messiaen, and Rituals of the Sacred
Journal article by J.L. Jacobs, Ronald Schleifer; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2004
Subjects: Ashbery, John--Comparative analysis, Ashbery, John--Criticism and interpretation, Ashbery, John--Works, Composers--Comparative analysis, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Works, Messiaen, Olivier--Comparative analysis, Messiaen, Olivier--Criticism and interpretation, Messiaen, Olivier--Works, Poets--Comparative analysis, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, The Double Dream of Spring (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Three Poems (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...of Messiaen" (2) Throughout his work John Ashbery invites readers to experiences...Introduction to The Collected Poems of Frank OHara" he describes how both he and OHara were "tremendously impressed by ... John Cages Music of Changes, a piano work...
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John O'Hara's Protectorate: His Undisguised Longing for Acclaim Still Keeps JOhn O'Hara from Being the Favorite Son of the Place He Defined
Magazine article by Benjamin Schwartz, Christina Schwartz; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 2000
Subjects: American fiction, American writers, O'Hara, John
...Undisguised Longing for Acclaim Still Keeps JOhn OHara from Being the Favorite Son of the...is the literary worlds scorn for John OHara that the inclusion two years ago...used to "start a bloody fund to send John OHara to Yale." "A mean little story, but...
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Re: Plays: A Little Festival in West Virginia Presents Big New Plays, While a New York Theater Company Stages a Rare Drama by John O'Hara
Magazine article by T.L. Ponick, Rex Roberts; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, August 12, 2002
Subjects: Blessing, Lee--Works, Contemporary American Theater Festival--Planning, Filloux, Catherine--Works, O'Hara, John--Works, Peccadillo Theater Company--Planning, Shepard, Sam--Works
...theater company stages a rare drama by John OHara by T.L. Ponick , Rex Roberts...premiere of Veronique, a play by author John OHara. Set in Greenwich Village in 1928...although set in the late twenties, OHara wrote the play in the late fifties...
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By O'Hara Besotted
Magazine article by Morris Freedman; American Scholar, Vol. 66, Fall 1997
Subjects: Novelists--Appreciation, O'Hara, John--Appreciation
...For Charles Mish) I began reading John OHara as an undergraduate, in the late...and faint shallows (The Novellas of John OHara, Random House, $19). OHara thought...greetings to our boy. Sincerely, John OHara, goy. OHara had as determined a...
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The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara
Magazine article by James A. Morris; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 27, Autumn 2003
Subjects: The Art of Burning Bridges: a Life of John O'Hara (Book)--Reviews
...Art of Burning Bridges: a Life of John OHara. by James A. Morris...epitaph on the gravestone of novelist John OHara was a postmortem provocation to his...perfect (see Selected Short Stories of John OHara, with an introduction by novelist...
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John O'Hara's Protectorate
Magazine article by Benjamin And Christina Schwarz; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, March 2000
Subjects: O'Hara, John--Biography
...undisguised longing for acclaim still keeps John OHara from being the favorite son of the...is the literary worlds scorn for John OHara that the inclusion two years ago...used to "start a bloody fund to send John OHara to Yale." "A mean little story, but...
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Child Death Inquiry Evidence Is Delayed
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), June 24, 2005
Subjects: O'Hara, John
...Lucy Crawford, the inquiry chairman John OHara QC said it was not yet clear whether...criminal proceedings are started, Mr OHara said it was "unlikely" any trial would...that her death was covered up. Mr OHara said it had been the intention to...
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Ulster's Kris Kringle; Santa's Helper Gets into the Xmas Spirit
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 16, 2005
Subjects: O'Hara, John
...answer to Kris Kringle, broadcaster John OHara, cant wait to start his Christmas...helper at home in Bangor, Co Down. John is one of the best-known broadcasters...friend Mr Claus has a charitable side. John has been impersonating Santa for 12...
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An Obstinate Novelist; Appreciating the Prickly John O'Hara
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 5, 2003
...novelist; Appreciating the prickly John OHara. Byline: Rex Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Fans of John OHara have long rued his brusque treatment...satiric sketches. Why, then, is John OHara not celebrated? How did this accomplished...
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Madcap Road Trip Is a Joy to Watch; the Main Feature: AWAY WE GO (15) Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Chris Messina, Melanie Lynskey, Carmen Ejogo. Director: Sam Mendes. 97 Mins. Rating: ...
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 18, 2009
Subjects: Away We Go (Motion picture)
...AWAY WE GO (15) Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Catherine OHara, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan...Jerry (Daniels) and Gloria (OHara), who live close by in Colorado...Smith Maggie Gyllenhaal as LN, John Krasinski as Burt Farlander...
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Boxing: Porter Takes the Plunge; Denis O'Hara Previews This Week's Smithwick's Ulster Boxing Championships
Newspaper article by Denis O'Hara; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), April 11, 2000
...Championships. by Denis OHara KEITH Porter, a 19 year...some recent sparring in the John Breens city centre gym, with...quarter finals) - Feather: K OHara (Immaculata) v P Hargan (Dungiven...Feather: O Duddy (Coleraine) v OHara/Hargan, D Hamill (All Saints...
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O'Hara, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OHARA, JOHN 1905 70, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Pottsville, Pa...and Good Samaritan and Other Stories (1974). See Selected Letters of John OHara (1978), ed. by M. J. Bruccoli; biographies by F. Farr (1973), M. J. Bruccoli...
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O'Hara, Frank
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with many of the painters of his time, OHara was a founder of the Poets Theatre and...School of Poets (consisting of himself, John Ashbery , Kenneth Koch , and James...by J. LeSueur (2003); M. Perloff, Frank OHara: Poet among Painters (1997); D. Lehman...
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Ashbery, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the so-called New York School of Poets, which also included Frank OHara , Kenneth Koch , and James Schuyler. Influenced early in his career by the method and music of John Cage , Ashbery has called his writing technique "managed chance...
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Cheever, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...before Dark (1984); S. Donaldson, ed., Conversations with John Cheever (1987); biographies by S. Donaldson (1988) and B. Bailey...1979), R. G. Collins, ed. (1982), G. W. Hunt (1983), J. E. OHara (1989), F. J. Bosha, ed. (1994), P. Meanor (1995), and H. Bloom...
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Koch, Kenneth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Harvard and Columbia he was associated with the Artists Theatre, Locus Solus magazine, and, along with friends John Ashbery , Frank OHara , and James Schuyler, the so-called New York School of Poets. Combining modernism, lyricism, and humor, Kochs...
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