John O'Hara
John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his work was praised by such contemporaries as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his champions rank him highly among the major under-appreciated American writers of the 20th century. 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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Gibbsville, Pa
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1992
The Other Persuasion
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1977
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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
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1977
Great Short Stories of the World
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1972
The Ewings
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1972
Lovey Childs; a Philadelphian's story
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1969
The instrument
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1967
Waiting for winter
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1966
The horse knows the way
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1964
The hat on the bed
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1963
The big laugh
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1962
The Cape Cod lighter
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1962
Sermons and soda-water
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1960
From the terrace
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1958
Great American Short Stories
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1957
Butterfield 8
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1957
A family party
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1956
Ten North Frederick
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1955
A rage to live
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1949
Hellbox
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1947
Short Stories from the New Yorker
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1940
Butterfield 8
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1935
Appointment in Samarra
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1934
Appointment in Samarra ; BUtterfield 8 ; Hope of heaven
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1934