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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%E2%80%99Hara" title="John O’Hara – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="John O’Hara" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John O'Hara – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="John O'Hara" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John O'Hara – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="John O'Hara" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="جان اوهارا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جان اوهارا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John O'Hara – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="John O'Hara" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%95%E2%80%B2%D5%80%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1" title="Ջոն Հենրի Օ′Հարա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջոն Հենրի Օ′Հարա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%93%27%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE" title="जॉन ओ'हारा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="जॉन ओ'हारा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John O'Hara – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="John O'Hara" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_O%27Hara" title="John Henry O'Hara – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="John Henry O'Hara" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%95%27%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%94" title="ג'ון או'הרה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'ון או'הרה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%92%27%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE" title="ಜಾನ್ ಒ'ಹಾರಾ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಜಾನ್ ಒ'ಹಾರಾ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%E2%80%99Hara_(pisarz)" title="John O’Hara (pisarz) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="John O’Hara (pisarz)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%E2%80%99%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" title="О’Хара, Джон Генри – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="О’Хара, Джон Генри" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%E2%80%99Hara" title="John O’Hara – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="John O’Hara" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John O'Hara – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="John O'Hara" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%E2%80%99Hara" title="John O’Hara – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="John O’Hara" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hara" title="John 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padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1905-01-31</span>)</span>January 31, 1905<br /><a href="/wiki/Pottsville,_Pennsylvania" title="Pottsville, Pennsylvania">Pottsville, Pennsylvania</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">April 11, 1970<span style="display:none">(1970-04-11)</span> (aged 65)<br /><a href="/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" title="Princeton, New Jersey">Princeton, New Jersey</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">Short story</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essay" title="Essay">essay</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra" title="Appointment in Samarra">Appointment in Samarra</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/BUtterfield_8_(novel)" title="BUtterfield 8 (novel)">BUtterfield 8</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Henry O'Hara</b> (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer. He was one of America's most prolific writers of <a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short stories</a>, credited with helping to invent <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> magazine short story style.<sup id="cite_ref-John_O_2016_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_O_2016-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with <i><a href="/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra" title="Appointment in Samarra">Appointment in Samarra</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/BUtterfield_8_(novel)" title="BUtterfield 8 (novel)">BUtterfield 8</a></i>. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his work was praised by such contemporaries as <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a> and <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>, and his champions rank him highly among the major under-appreciated American writers of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. </p><p>"O’Hara may not have been the best story writer of the twentieth century, but he is the most addictive," wrote <a href="/wiki/Lorin_Stein" title="Lorin Stein">Lorin Stein</a>, then editor-in-chief of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Paris_Review" title="The Paris Review">The Paris Review</a></i>, in a 2013 appreciation of O'Hara's work. Stein added, "You can binge on his collections the way some people binge on <i><a href="/wiki/Mad_Men" title="Mad Men">Mad Men</a></i>, and for some of the same reasons. On the topics of class, sex, and alcohol—that is, the topics that mattered to him—his novels amount to a secret history of American life."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>O'Hara achieved substantial commercial success in the years after World War II, when his fiction repeatedly appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly's</a></i> annual list of the top ten best-selling fiction works in the United States. These best sellers included <i>A Rage to Live</i> (1949), <i>Ten North Frederick</i> (1955), <i>From the Terrace</i> (1959), <i>Ourselves to Know</i> (1960), <i>Sermons and Soda Water</i> (1960) and <i>Elizabeth Appleton</i> (1963).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five of his works were adapted into popular films in the 1950s and 1960s. </p><p>Despite the popularity of these books, O'Hara accumulated detractors due to his outsized and easily bruised ego, alcoholic irascibility, long-held resentments and politically conservative views that were unfashionable in literary circles in the 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-Philip_B._Eppard_1994_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philip_B._Eppard_1994-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After O'Hara's death, <a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a>, an admirer of O'Hara's writing, said that the prolific author "out-produced our capacity for appreciation; maybe now we can settle down and marvel at him all over again." </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>O'Hara was born in <a href="/wiki/Pottsville,_Pennsylvania" title="Pottsville, Pennsylvania">Pottsville, Pennsylvania</a>, to an affluent <a href="/wiki/Irish_Americans" title="Irish Americans">Irish American</a> family. Though his family lived among the gentry of eastern Pennsylvania during his childhood, O'Hara's <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholics" title="Irish Catholics">Irish Catholic</a> background gave him the perspective of an outsider to elite <a href="/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="White Anglo-Saxon Protestant">WASP</a> society, a theme he wrote of again and again. He attended the <a href="/wiki/Secondary_school" title="Secondary school">secondary school</a> Niagara Prep in <a href="/wiki/Lewiston,_New_York" title="Lewiston, New York">Lewiston, New York</a>, where he was named Class Poet for Class of 1924.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father died about that time, leaving him unable to afford <a href="/wiki/Yale" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale">Yale</a>, the college of his dreams, and he fell overnight from the privileged life of a well-heeled doctor's family, including club memberships, riding and dance lessons, fancy cars in the barn, and domestic servants in the house. By all accounts, this social fall afflicted O'Hara with status anxiety for the rest of his life, honing the cutting social class awareness that characterizes his work.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Brendan_Gill" title="Brendan Gill">Brendan Gill</a>, who worked with O'Hara at <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, claimed that O'Hara was nearly obsessed with a sense of social inferiority due to not having attended Yale. "People used to make fun of the fact that O'Hara wanted so desperately to have gone to Yale, but it was never a joke to O'Hara. It seemed... that there wasn't anything he didn't know about it in regard to college and prep-school matters."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Hemingway once said someone should "start a bloody fund to send up a collection to send John O'Hara to Yale."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As his literary acclaim grew, O'Hara yearned for an honorary degree from Yale, but never received it. According to Gill, the college was unwilling to award the honor precisely because O'Hara had obstreperously "asked for it."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_and_reputation">Career and reputation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career and reputation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Initially, O'Hara worked as a reporter for various newspapers. Moving to New York City, he began to write short stories for magazines. During the early part of his career, he was also a film critic, a radio commentator and a press agent. In 1934, O'Hara published his first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra" title="Appointment in Samarra">Appointment in Samarra</a></i>. Endorsing the novel, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a> wrote: "If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, read <i>Appointment in Samarra.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Hara followed <i>Samarra</i> with <i><a href="/wiki/BUtterfield_8_(novel)" title="BUtterfield 8 (novel)">BUtterfield 8</a>,</i> his <a href="/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef" title="Roman à clef">roman à clef</a> based upon the tragic, short life of flapper <a href="/wiki/Starr_Faithfull" class="mw-redirect" title="Starr Faithfull">Starr Faithfull</a>, whose mysterious death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation. Over four decades, O'Hara published novels, novellas, plays, screenplays and more than 400 short stories, the majority of them in <i>The New Yorker</i>. </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, he was a correspondent in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">Pacific theater</a>. After the war, he wrote screenplays and more novels, including <i><a href="/wiki/Ten_North_Frederick" title="Ten North Frederick">Ten North Frederick</a></i>, for which he won the 1956 <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-nba1956_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nba1956-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/From_the_Terrace" title="From the Terrace">From the Terrace</a></i> (1958), which he considered his "greatest achievement as a novelist."<sup id="cite_ref-Philip_B._Eppard_1994_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philip_B._Eppard_1994-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Late in life, with his reputation established, he became a newspaper columnist. In his last decade, O'Hara created "a body of work of magnificent dimensions," wrote the novelist <a href="/wiki/George_V._Higgins" title="George V. Higgins">George V. Higgins</a>, whose own trademark dialogue was influenced heavily by O'Hara's style. "Between 1960 and 1968," Higgins noted, O'Hara "published six novels, seven collections of short fiction, and some 137 terse and extended stories that all by themselves would supply credentials for a towering reputation in the world of perfect justice that he never did quite find."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Appointment_in_Samarra.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Appointment_in_Samarra.jpg/170px-Appointment_in_Samarra.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Appointment_in_Samarra.jpg/255px-Appointment_in_Samarra.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Appointment_in_Samarra.jpg 2x" data-file-width="269" data-file-height="371" /></a><figcaption>First edition cover of <i>Appointment in Samarra</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Many of O'Hara's stories (and his later novels written in the 1950s) are set in Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, a barely fictionalized version of his home town of Pottsville, a small city in the <a href="/wiki/Coal_Region" title="Coal Region">anthracite region</a> of the northeastern United States. He named Gibbsville for his friend and frequent editor at <i>The New Yorker</i> <a href="/wiki/Wolcott_Gibbs" title="Wolcott Gibbs">Wolcott Gibbs</a>. Most of his other stories were set in New York or Hollywood. </p><p>O'Hara's short stories earned him his highest critical acclaim. He contributed more of them to <i>The New Yorker</i> than any other writer.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He complained that his numerous short stories took his time away from writing novels. "I had an apparently inexhaustible urge to express an unlimited supply of short story ideas. No writing has ever come more easily to me," he claimed.<sup id="cite_ref-John_O_2016_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_O_2016-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_America" title="Library of America">Library of America</a>'s collection of 60 of O'Hara's best stories, editor Charles McGrath praises them for their "sketchlike lightness and brevity... in which nothing necessarily 'happens' in the old-fashioned sense, but in which some crucial loss or discovery is revealed just by implication... a sense of speed and economy is just what makes the best of these stories so thrilling."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gill, who worked with O'Hara at <i>The New Yorker</i>, ranks him "among the greatest short-story writers in English, or in any other language" and credits him with helping "to invent what the world came to call <i>The New Yorker</i> short story." In the foreword to a collection published four years before his death, O'Hara declared, "No one writes them any better than I do."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two more volumes of his stories were published soon after his death. </p><p>Despite his success as a best-selling author, most of O'Hara's longer work is not held in as high regard by the literary establishment. Critic <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Schwarz_(writer)" title="Benjamin Schwarz (writer)">Benjamin Schwarz</a> and writer Christina Schwarz claimed: "So widespread is the literary world's scorn for John O'Hara that the inclusion of <i>Appointment in Samarra</i> on the <a href="/wiki/Modern_Library" title="Modern Library">Modern Library</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Modern_Library%27s_100_Best_Novels" title="Modern Library's 100 Best Novels">list of the 100 best English-language novels</a> of the twentieth century was used to ridicule the entire project."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of O'Hara's novels and stories are tied off with clumsy, abrupt endings. Some of the harsh literary criticism is attributed to personal dislike of O'Hara's abrasive ego and arrogant manner, his vigorous self-promotion, his obsession with his social status, and the politically conservative columns he wrote late in his career. Early and mid-20th century critics also disparaged his novels for their blunt and non-judgmental depictions of loose women and homosexuals, but critics writing after the <a href="/wiki/Sexual_revolution" title="Sexual revolution">sexual revolution</a> saw in O'Hara a pioneer in showing female sexuality in frank, realistic ways. John Kenneth Galbraith, writing about the strict Calvinist culture of his early 20th century childhood in remote, rural Ontario, remembered, "We were taught that sexual intercourse was, under all circumstances, a sin, and we were free from the countervailing influence of movies, television and John O'Hara."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Hara's most biting critics regard his novels as shallow and overly concerned with sexual desire, drinking and surface details at the expense of deeper meaning. Many of his leading characters are alcoholics who live as emotional zombies, anesthetized by drinking to the agony of the human heart in conflict with itself. As his contemporary <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> said of such writers in his <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize</a> address of 1949, "He writes not of the heart but of the glands." </p><p>In 1949, O'Hara left <i>The New Yorker</i> bitterly, after it published a withering review of O'Hara's long novel <i>A Rage to Live</i> by his colleague <a href="/wiki/Brendan_Gill" title="Brendan Gill">Brendan Gill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gill disparaged O'Hara's book as "a formula family novel" , one of those turned out by "writers of the third and fourth magnitude in such disheartening abundance" and declared it "a catastrophe" by an author who "plainly intended to write nothing less than a great American novel." Literary critics called Gill's review a "savage attack" and a "cruel hatchet job" on one of <i>The New Yorker</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s most popular writers.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "During the preceding two decades O'Hara had been <i>The New Yorker</i>'s most prolific contributor of stories"<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (no fewer than 197 by one count).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the magazine published Gill's review, O'Hara quit writing for <i>The New Yorker</i> for more than a decade, and when readers complained to Gill for driving O'Hara away, Gill deflected blame onto another <i>New Yorker</i> contributor, <a href="/wiki/James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a>, for stirring up animosity. O'Hara would not resume writing for <i>The New Yorker</i> until the 1960s, upon the arrival of a new editor who sought out O'Hara with an olive branch. Nearly 50 years after the scandalous review, at a forum on O'Hara's legacy held in 1996, Gill stood up in the audience to explain his attack on O'Hara, pleading that "I had to tell the truth about the novel."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to biographer Frank MacShane, O'Hara thought that Hemingway's death made O'Hara the leading candidate for the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>. O'Hara wrote to his daughter "I really think I will get it," and "I want the Nobel prize... so bad I can taste it." MacShane says that <a href="/wiki/T.S._Eliot" class="mw-redirect" title="T.S. Eliot">T.S. Eliot</a> told O'Hara that he had, in fact, been nominated twice. When <a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a> won the prize in 1962, O'Hara wired, "Congratulations, I can think of only one other author I'd rather see get it." In a letter to Steinbeck two years before that, O'Hara placed himself with Steinbeck in the pantheon of great 20th century American writers, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, singling out Faulkner among them as "the one, the genius."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>O'Hara's work has many literary admirers, including authors such as <a href="/wiki/Joan_Didion" title="Joan Didion">Joan Didion</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wolfe" title="Tom Wolfe">Tom Wolfe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gay_Talese" title="Gay Talese">Gay Talese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fran_Lebowitz" title="Fran Lebowitz">Fran Lebowitz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shelby_Foote" title="Shelby Foote">Shelby Foote</a>. <a href="/wiki/Charles_McGrath_(critic)" title="Charles McGrath (critic)">Charles McGrath</a>, a former fiction editor of <i>The New Yorker</i> and former editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i>, has called O'Hara "one of the great listeners of American fiction, able to write dialogue that sounded the way people really talk, and he also learned the eavesdropper's secret—how often people leave unsaid what is really on their minds.".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Hara said he learned from reading <a href="/wiki/Ring_Lardner" title="Ring Lardner">Ring Lardner</a> "that if you wrote down speech as it is spoken truly, you produce true characters," and added, "Sometimes I almost feel that I ought to apologize for having the ability to write good dialogue, and yet it's the attribute most lacking in American writers and almost totally lacking in the British."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>O'Hara died from <a href="/wiki/Cardiovascular_disease" title="Cardiovascular disease">cardiovascular disease</a> in Princeton, New Jersey, and is interred in the <a href="/wiki/Princeton_Cemetery" title="Princeton Cemetery">Princeton Cemetery</a>. A comment he made about himself and which was chosen by his wife for his <a href="/wiki/Epitaph" title="Epitaph">epitaph</a> reads: "Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of this, Gill commented: "From the far side of the grave, he remains self-defensive and overbearing. Better than anyone else? Not merely better than any other writer of fiction but better than any dramatist, any poet, any biographer, any historian? It is an astonishing claim." </p><p>After his death, O'Hara's study and its contents were reconstructed in 1974 for display at <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a>, where his papers are held. His childhood home, the <a href="/wiki/John_O%27Hara_House" title="John O'Hara House">John O'Hara House</a> in Pottsville, was added to the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-nris_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nris-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Butterfield8_movieposter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Butterfield8_movieposter.jpg/170px-Butterfield8_movieposter.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Butterfield8_movieposter.jpg/255px-Butterfield8_movieposter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Butterfield8_movieposter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="289" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Poster for the film <i><a href="/wiki/BUtterfield_8" title="BUtterfield 8">BUtterfield 8</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>O'Hara's <a href="/wiki/Epistolary_novel" title="Epistolary novel">epistolary novel</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Pal_Joey_(novel)" title="Pal Joey (novel)">Pal Joey</a></i> (1940) led to the successful Broadway musical, with <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> by O'Hara and songs by <a href="/wiki/Rodgers_and_Hart" title="Rodgers and Hart">Rodgers and Hart</a>. In 1957, <i><a href="/wiki/Pal_Joey_(film)" title="Pal Joey (film)">Pal Joey</a></i> was made into a musical film starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Barbara Nichols. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/From_the_Terrace" title="From the Terrace">From the Terrace</a></i> is a 1960 film adapted from O'Hara's 1958 novel. The film starred <a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> as disenchanted Alfred Eaton, son of a wealthy but indifferent father and alcoholic mother as well as <a href="/wiki/Joanne_Woodward" title="Joanne Woodward">Joanne Woodward</a> as his socially ambitious, self-pitying and unfaithful wife Mary St. John. </p><p>Also in 1960, O'Hara's best-selling 1935 novel <i>BUtterfield 8</i> was released as a <a href="/wiki/BUtterfield_8" title="BUtterfield 8">film with the same name</a>. <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Academy Award for Best Actress">Academy Award for Best Actress</a> for her portrayal of Gloria Wandrous. Of the film version, Taylor famously said, "I think it stinks." </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_North_Frederick_(film)" title="Ten North Frederick (film)">Ten North Frederick</a></i> is a 1958 film based on O'Hara's 1955 novel. <a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a> starred as Joe Chapin, with <a href="/wiki/Diane_Varsi" title="Diane Varsi">Diane Varsi</a>, Ray Stricklyn, Suzy Parker, and <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Fitzgerald" title="Geraldine Fitzgerald">Geraldine Fitzgerald</a> in supporting roles. O'Hara called Cooper's performance "sensitive, understanding and true."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/A_Rage_to_Live" title="A Rage to Live">A Rage to Live</a></i> is a 1965 film directed by Walter Grauman and starring <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Pleshette" title="Suzanne Pleshette">Suzanne Pleshette</a> as Grace Caldwell Tate, a well-mannered, upper-crust beauty whose passions wreak havoc on her social circle. The screenplay by John T. Kelley is based on O'Hara's best-selling 1949 novel. </p><p>O'Hara's short stories about Gibbsville were used as the basis for the 1975 NBC television movie <i><a href="/wiki/Gibbsville_(TV_series)" title="Gibbsville (TV series)">John O'Hara's Gibbsville</a></i> (also known as <i>The Turning Point of Jim Malloy</i>) and for the short-lived 1976 NBC dramatic television series <i><a href="/wiki/Gibbsville_(TV_series)" title="Gibbsville (TV series)">Gibbsville</a></i>. </p><p>In 1987, an adaptation of O'Hara's 1966 story "Natica Jackson," about a film actress in 1930s Hollywood, was produced for the <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> anthology series <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Performances" title="Great Performances">Great Performances</a></i>. It was directed by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Bogart" title="Paul Bogart">Paul Bogart</a> and starred <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Pfeiffer" title="Michelle Pfeiffer">Michelle Pfeiffer</a> in the title role. </p><p>The television period drama series <i><a href="/wiki/Mad_Men" title="Mad Men">Mad Men</a></i>, on <a href="/wiki/AMC_(TV_channel)" title="AMC (TV channel)">AMC</a> from 2007 to 2015, generated renewed popular interest in O'Hara's work, which dealt with similar themes of mid-20th century American society. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Columns">Columns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Columns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1950s, O'Hara wrote a weekly book column, "Sweet and Sour" for the <i>Trenton Times-Advertiser</i> and a biweekly column, "Appointment with O'Hara", for <i><a href="/wiki/Collier%27s_Weekly" class="mw-redirect" title="Collier's Weekly">Collier's</a></i> magazine. MacShane calls them "garrulous and outspoken" and says neither "added much of importance to O'Hara's work". Biographer Shelden Grebstein says that O'Hara in these columns was "simultaneously embarrassing and infuriating in his vaingloriousness, vindictiveness, and general bellicosity." Biographer Geoffrey Woolf says these earlier columns anticipated "his disastrous 'My Turn' in <i><a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a></i>, which endured fifty-three weeks ... beginning in late 1964... of his dismissive and contemptuous worst".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inline_citation#When_you_must_use_inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Inline citation"><span title="page numbers are generally needed but Grebstein isn't even cited, eh? (April 2012)">This quote needs a citation</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>His first <i>Newsday</i> column opened with the line, "Let's get off to a really bad start." His second complained, "the same hysteria that afflicted the Prohibitionists is now evident among the anti-cigarettists." His third column nominally supported the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> nominee <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> for U.S. president by identifying his cause with fans of the corny accordionist and band leader <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Welk" title="Lawrence Welk">Lawrence Welk</a>. "I think it's time the Lawrence Welk people had their say," wrote O'Hara. "The <a href="/wiki/Lester_Lanin" title="Lester Lanin">Lester Lanin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a> people have been on too long. When the country is in trouble, like war kind of trouble, man, it is the Lawrence Welk people who can be depended upon, all the way." In his fifth column, he argued that <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> should not have received the Nobel Peace Prize. </p><p>The syndicated column was not a success, published by a continuously decreasing number of newspapers, and did not endear him to the politically liberal New York literary establishment. </p><p>Several of his columns demonstrate his knowledge of trivia about and yearning for association with <a href="/wiki/Ivy_League" title="Ivy League">Ivy League</a> colleges. As he noted, "Through the years I have acquired a vast amount of information about colleges and universities." The May 8, 1965, column takes as its ostensible topic the fact that Yale owns stock in <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">American Broadcasting Company</a> and thus is a beneficiary of the television program <i><a href="/wiki/Peyton_Place_(TV_series)" title="Peyton Place (TV series)">Peyton Place</a></i>. O'Hara writes: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[I]n that Yale Blue Heaven Up Above, where <a href="/wiki/William_Lyon_Phelps" title="William Lyon Phelps">William Lyon Phelps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Seidel_Canby" title="Henry Seidel Canby">Henry Seidel Canby</a> may meet every afternoon for tea, there must be some embarrassment. Assuming that Harvard men also go to heaven (<a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton</a> men go back to <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University#"Old_Nassau"" title="Princeton University">Old Nassau</a>), I fancy that they are having a little fun with Dr. Phelps and Dr. Canby on the subject of Peyton Place.</p></blockquote> <p>Later, he notes that <a href="/wiki/James_Gould_Cozzens" title="James Gould Cozzens">James Gould Cozzens</a> is a "genuine Harvard alumnus" and speculates that Harvard should broker a television serialization of a Cozzens novel: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>But Cozzens makes his home in <a href="/wiki/Williamstown,_Massachusetts" title="Williamstown, Massachusetts">Williamstown, Mass.</a>, and they have a college there. When <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis" title="Sinclair Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</a> lived in Williamstown the college ignored him, possibly because Lewis was a Yale man, although I am only guessing on that. I live in Princeton, N. J. and am not a Yale man, but official Princeton University has ignored me as Williams did Lewis.</p></blockquote> <p>His September 4, 1965, column deals entirely with his failure to have received any honorary degrees, going into detail about three honorary degrees he was actually offered but, for various reasons, did not accept. In the column, he lists the awards he has received: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In a long and (I believe) useful literary career I have received five major honors. Not to be bashful about it, they are: the National Book Award; membership in the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">National Institute of Arts and Letters</a>; the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters_Gold_Medals" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals">Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters</a>; the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Drama_Critics%27_Circle#New_York_Drama_Critics.27_Circle_Award" title="New York Drama Critics' Circle">Critics Circle Award</a>; and the <a href="/wiki/Donaldson_Awards" title="Donaldson Awards">Donaldson award</a>. You will note that among them is no recognition by the institutions of higher learning.</p></blockquote> <p>He complains that the colleges write him "highly complimentary" letters asking him to perform "chores" such as officiating as <a href="/wiki/Artist-in-residence" title="Artist-in-residence">writer-in-residence</a>, judging literary contests, and give lectures, yet do not give him degree citations. "The five major distinctions," he notes, "were awarded me by other writers, not by [academia]." </p><p>The column closes with the comment: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>If Yale had given me a degree, I could have joined the <a href="/wiki/Yale_Club_of_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale Club of New York City">Yale Club</a>, where the food is pretty good, the library is ample and restful, the location convenient, and I could go there when I felt like it without sponging off friends. They also have a nice-looking necktie.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra" title="Appointment in Samarra">Appointment in Samarra</a></i> (1934)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/BUtterfield_8_(novel)" title="BUtterfield 8 (novel)">BUtterfield 8</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hope_of_Heaven" title="Hope of Heaven">Hope of Heaven</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pal_Joey_(novel)" title="Pal Joey (novel)">Pal Joey</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Rage_to_Live_(novel)" title="A Rage to Live (novel)">A Rage to Live</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i>The Farmers Hotel</i> (1951) — adapted from O'Hara's original play</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_North_Frederick" title="Ten North Frederick">Ten North Frederick</a></i> (1955) — winner of the <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Fiction" title="National Book Award for Fiction">National Book Award for Fiction</a><sup id="cite_ref-nba1956_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nba1956-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Family_Party" title="A Family Party">A Family Party</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i>From the Terrace</i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ourselves_to_Know" title="Ourselves to Know">Ourselves to Know</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Laugh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Big Laugh (page does not exist)">The Big Laugh</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Appleton" title="Elizabeth Appleton">Elizabeth Appleton</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i>The Lockwood Concern</i> (1965)</li> <li><i>The Instrument</i> (1967)</li> <li><i>Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian's Story</i> (1969)</li> <li><i>The Ewings</i> (1970)</li> <li><i>The Second Ewings</i> (1972)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_story_collections">Short story collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Short story collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Doctor’s Son and Other Stories</i> (1935)</li> <li><i>Files on Parade</i> (1939)</li> <li><i>Pipe Night</i> (1945)</li> <li><i>Hellbox</i> (1947)</li> <li><i>Sermons and Soda Water: A Trilogy of Three Novellas</i> (1960)</li> <li><i>Assembly</i> (1961)</li> <li><i>The Cape Cod Lighter</i> (1962)</li> <li><i>The Hat on the Bed</i> (1963)</li> <li><i>The Horse Knows the Way</i> (1964)</li> <li><i>Waiting for Winter</i> (1966)</li> <li><i>And Other Stories</i> (1968)</li> <li><i>The Time Element and Other Stories</i> (1972)</li> <li><i>Good Samaritan and Other Stories</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>Gibbsville, PA</i> (Carroll & Graf, 1992, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88184-899-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-88184-899-9">0-88184-899-9</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Screenplays">Screenplays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Screenplays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/He_Married_His_Wife" title="He Married His Wife">He Married His Wife</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moontide" title="Moontide">Moontide</a></i> (1942)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Five Plays</i> (1961)</li></ul> <p><i>(The Farmers Hotel</i>, <i>The Searching Sun</i>, <i>The Champagne Pool</i>, <i>Veronique</i>, <i>The Way It Was)</i> </p> <ul><li><i>Two by O'Hara</i> (1979)</li></ul> <p><i>(The Man Who Could Not Lose</i> [screen treatment] and <i>Far from Heaven</i> [play]) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Nonfiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Sweet and Sour</i> (1954) Assorted columns on books and authors</li> <li><i>My Turn</i> (1966). Fifty-three weekly columns written for <i><a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a></i></li> <li><i>Letters</i> (1978).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>BUtterfield 8</i>, <i>Pal Joey</i> and <i>The Doctor's Son and Other Stories</i> were published as <a href="/wiki/Armed_Services_Edition" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed Services Edition">Armed Services Editions</a> during WWII. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-John_O_2016-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-John_O_2016_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-John_O_2016_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">John O'Hara: Stories, Charles McGrath, ed., The Library of America, 2016.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDickstein2017" class="citation journal cs1">Dickstein, Morris (May 10, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/neglected-john-ohara/">"Something to remember him by"</a>. <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 14,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Times+Literary+Supplement&rft.atitle=Something+to+remember+him+by&rft.date=2017-05-10&rft.aulast=Dickstein&rft.aufirst=Morris&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-tls.co.uk%2Farticles%2Fprivate%2Fneglected-john-ohara%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+O%27Hara" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBell" class="citation news cs1">Bell, Millicent. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1981/03/01/john-ohara-chronicler-of-class-and-power/ba9af20d-1413-46d9-99b6-c6362673a637/">"John O'Hara: Chronicler of Class and Power"</a>. <i>The Washington Post</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 8,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.atitle=John+O%27Hara%3A+Chronicler+of+Class+and+Power&rft.aulast=Bell&rft.aufirst=Millicent&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F1981%2F03%2F01%2Fjohn-ohara-chronicler-of-class-and-power%2Fba9af20d-1413-46d9-99b6-c6362673a637%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+O%27Hara" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/22547/john-ohara">"John O'Hara"</a>. <i>Penguin Random House Canada</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 8,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Penguin+Random+House+Canada&rft.atitle=John+O%27Hara&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.penguinrandomhouse.ca%2Fauthors%2F22547%2Fjohn-ohara&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+O%27Hara" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"He Told the Truth about His Time," <i>The New Yorker</i>, August 19, 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHackett,_Alice_Payne_and_Burke,_James_Henry1977" class="citation book cs1">Hackett, Alice Payne and Burke, James Henry (1977). <i>80 Years of Best Sellers:1895 - 1975</i>. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8352-0908-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8352-0908-3"><bdi>0-8352-0908-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=80+Years+of+Best+Sellers%3A1895+-+1975&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=R.R.+Bowker+Company&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=0-8352-0908-3&rft.au=Hackett%2C+Alice+Payne+and+Burke%2C+James+Henry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+O%27Hara" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Philip_B._Eppard_1994-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Philip_B._Eppard_1994_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Philip_B._Eppard_1994_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Introduction by Philip B. Eppard, Critical Essays on John O'Hara, Philip B. Eppard, ed., G. K. Hall & Co., 1994.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Matthew Broccoli, The O'Hara Concern. 1975.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchwarzSchwarz2000" class="citation web cs1">Schwarz, Benjamin; Schwarz, Christina (March 1, 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/03/john-oharas-protectorate/378079/">"John O'Hara's Protectorate"</a>. <i>The Atlantic</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 8,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Atlantic&rft.atitle=John+O%27Hara%27s+Protectorate&rft.date=2000-03-01&rft.aulast=Schwarz&rft.aufirst=Benjamin&rft.au=Schwarz%2C+Christina&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagazine%2Farchive%2F2000%2F03%2Fjohn-oharas-protectorate%2F378079%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+O%27Hara" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Flyleaf endorsement to <i>Appointment in Samarra</i>, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1934.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nba1956-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nba1956_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nba1956_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1956">"National Book Awards – 1956"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Foundation" title="National Book Foundation">National Book Foundation</a>. 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With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Preface, <i>Gibbsville, PA: The Classic Stories</i>, Carroll & Graf, 1992.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lorin Stein, introduction to BUtterfield 8, Penguin Classics, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Editor's Note, John O'Hara: Stories, Charles McGrath, ed., The Library of America, 2016.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"And Other Stories," Random House, 1966.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Kenneth Galbraith, The Scotch, Macmillan, 1964.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The New Yorker, August 20, 1949.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fran Lebowitz, forward to A Rage to Live, Modern Library Classics, 2004</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Philip B. 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New York: HarperCollins. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780688154943" title="Special:BookSources/9780688154943">9780688154943</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gill, Brendan. <i><a href="/wiki/Here_at_The_New_Yorker" title="Here at The New Yorker">Here at The New Yorker</a></i>. Random House, 1975. Da Capo Press, 1997, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-80810-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-80810-2">0-306-80810-2</a>. (O'Hara desperately wanting to attend Yale, p. 117. Failure to get honorary Yale degree, p. 268.)</li> <li>O'Hara, John (1966), <i>My Turn: Fifty-three Pieces by John O'Hara</i> (collected newspaper columns), Random House.</li> <li>Farr, Finis (1973): <i>O'Hara: A Biography.</i> Boston: Little Brown.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_J._Bruccoli" title="Matthew J. Bruccoli">Bruccoli, Matthew J.</a> (1975): <i>The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara.</i> New York: Random House.</li> <li>MacShane, Frank (1980): <i>The Life of John O'Hara.</i> New York: Dutton.</li> <li>Woolf, Geoffrey (2003): <i>The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara.</i> New York: Knopf.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.literarycritic.com/bloom.htm">The Western Canon</a>: <a href="/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra" title="Appointment in Samarra">Appointment in Samarra</a> included by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Harold Bloom</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_O%27Hara&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikiquote-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <i><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/John_O%27Hara" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/John O'Hara">John O'Hara</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/83-06212005-505469.html">Philly Burbs O'Hara's lost papers and reward</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged April 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050720084557/http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/ohara_john_pa.htm">John O'Hara – (1905–1970)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140926064004/http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/speccolls/rbm/ohara.html">O'Hara Study at Penn State</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100730224732/http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/findingaids/2/ohara.frame.html">Guide to the John O'Hara Papers, 1923–1991</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100730232253/http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/findingaids/2/random.frame.html">Guide to the Random House Files of John O'Hara, 1927–1977</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120229160959/http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/findingaids/2/oharaswanson.frame.html">Calendar of the John O'Hara Letters to H. 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F. Powers">J. F. Powers</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Centaur" title="The Centaur">The Centaur</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Herzog_(novel)" title="Herzog (novel)">Herzog</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Saul_Bellow" title="Saul Bellow">Saul Bellow</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Katherine_Anne_Porter" title="The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter">The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter" title="Katherine Anne Porter">Katherine Anne Porter</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fixer_(novel)" title="The Fixer (novel)">The Fixer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Malamud" title="Bernard Malamud">Bernard Malamud</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Eighth_Day_(Wilder_novel)" title="The Eighth Day (Wilder novel)">The Eighth Day</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Steps_(book)" title="Steps (book)">Steps</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jerzy_Kosi%C5%84ski" title="Jerzy Kosiński">Jerzy Kosiński</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Them_(novel)" title="Them (novel)">them</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates" title="Joyce Carol Oates">Joyce Carol Oates</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Sammler%27s_Planet" title="Mr. Sammler's Planet">Mr. Sammler's Planet</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Saul_Bellow" title="Saul Bellow">Saul Bellow</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Stories_(O%27Connor)" title="The Complete Stories (O'Connor)">The Complete Stories</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor" title="Flannery O'Connor">Flannery O'Connor</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Chimera_(Barth_novel)" title="Chimera (Barth novel)">Chimera</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Barth" title="John Barth">John Barth</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Augustus_(Williams_novel)" title="Augustus (Williams novel)">Augustus</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Williams" title="John Edward Williams">John Williams</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Gravity%27s_Rainbow" title="Gravity's Rainbow">Gravity's Rainbow</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Crown_of_Feathers_and_Other_Stories" title="A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories">A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dog_Soldiers_(novel)" title="Dog Soldiers (novel)">Dog Soldiers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stone_(novelist)" title="Robert Stone (novelist)">Robert Stone</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hair_of_Harold_Roux" title="The Hair of Harold Roux">The Hair of Harold Roux</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Williams_(writer)" title="Thomas Williams (writer)">Thomas Williams</a> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/J_R" title="J R">J R</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Gaddis" title="William Gaddis">William Gaddis</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator_Bird" title="The Spectator Bird">The Spectator Bird</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Wallace_Stegner" title="Wallace Stegner">Wallace Stegner</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Blood_Tie_(Settle_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blood Tie (Settle novel)">Blood Tie</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Lee_Settle" title="Mary Lee Settle">Mary Lee Settle</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Going_After_Cacciato" title="Going After Cacciato">Going After Cacciato</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tim_O%27Brien_(author)" title="Tim O'Brien (author)">Tim O'Brien</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sophie%27s_Choice_(novel)" title="Sophie's Choice (novel)">Sophie's Choice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Styron" title="William Styron">William Styron</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp" title="The World According to Garp">The World According to Garp</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Irving" title="John Irving">John Irving</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Plains Song: For Female Voices</i> by <a href="/wiki/Wright_Morris" title="Wright Morris">Wright Morris</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stories_of_John_Cheever" title="The Stories of John Cheever">The Stories of John Cheever</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Cheever" title="John Cheever">John Cheever</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rabbit_Is_Rich" title="Rabbit Is Rich">Rabbit Is Rich</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/So_Long,_See_You_Tomorrow_(novel)" title="So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)">So Long, See You Tomorrow</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Keepers_Maxwell,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.">William Maxwell</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Color_Purple" title="The Color Purple">The Color Purple</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alice_Walker" title="Alice Walker">Alice Walker</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Eudora_Welty" title="The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty">The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Eudora_Welty" title="Eudora Welty">Eudora Welty</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Victory Over Japan</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Gilchrist" title="Ellen Gilchrist">Ellen Gilchrist</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/White_Noise_(novel)" title="White Noise (novel)">White Noise</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Don_DeLillo" title="Don DeLillo">Don DeLillo</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/World%27s_Fair_(novel)" title="World's Fair (novel)">World's Fair</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/E._L._Doctorow" title="E. L. Doctorow">E. L. Doctorow</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Paco%27s_Story" title="Paco's Story">Paco's Story</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Heinemann" title="Larry Heinemann">Larry Heinemann</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Paris_Trout_(novel)" title="Paris Trout (novel)">Paris Trout</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Pete_Dexter" title="Pete Dexter">Pete Dexter</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Spartina_(novel)" title="Spartina (novel)">Spartina</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Casey_(novelist)" title="John Casey (novelist)">John Casey</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Middle_Passage_(novel)" title="Middle Passage (novel)">Middle Passage</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Johnson" title="Charles R. Johnson">Charles Johnson</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mating_(novel)" title="Mating (novel)">Mating</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Rush" title="Norman Rush">Norman Rush</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Pretty_Horses_(novel)" title="All the Pretty Horses (novel)">All the Pretty Horses</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy" title="Cormac McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shipping_News" title="The Shipping News">The Shipping News</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Annie_Proulx" title="Annie Proulx">E. Annie Proulx</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Frolic_of_His_Own" title="A Frolic of His Own">A Frolic of His Own</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Gaddis" title="William Gaddis">William Gaddis</a> (1994) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sabbath%27s_Theater" title="Sabbath's Theater">Sabbath's Theater</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Roth" title="Philip Roth">Philip Roth</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Ship Fever and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Barrett" title="Andrea Barrett">Andrea Barrett</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Mountain_(novel)" title="Cold Mountain (novel)">Cold Mountain</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Frazier" title="Charles Frazier">Charles Frazier</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Charming_Billy" title="Charming Billy">Charming Billy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alice_McDermott" title="Alice McDermott">Alice McDermott</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Waiting_(novel)" title="Waiting (novel)">Waiting</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ha_Jin" title="Ha Jin">Ha Jin</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/In_America_(novel)" title="In America (novel)">In America</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Sontag" title="Susan Sontag">Susan Sontag</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Corrections" title="The Corrections">The Corrections</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Franzen" title="Jonathan Franzen">Jonathan Franzen</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Junes" title="Three Junes">Three Junes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Julia_Glass" title="Julia Glass">Julia Glass</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Fire_(Hazzard_novel)" title="The Great Fire (Hazzard novel)">The Great Fire</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Hazzard" title="Shirley Hazzard">Shirley Hazzard</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_News_from_Paraguay" title="The News from Paraguay">The News from Paraguay</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tuck" title="Lily Tuck">Lily Tuck</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Europe_Central" title="Europe Central">Europe Central</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_T._Vollmann" title="William T. Vollmann">William T. Vollmann</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Echo_Maker" title="The Echo Maker">The Echo Maker</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Powers" title="Richard Powers">Richard Powers</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Tree_of_Smoke" title="Tree of Smoke">Tree of Smoke</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Denis_Johnson" title="Denis Johnson">Denis Johnson</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Country" title="Shadow Country">Shadow Country</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Matthiessen" title="Peter Matthiessen">Peter Matthiessen</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Let_the_Great_World_Spin" title="Let the Great World Spin">Let the Great World Spin</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Colum_McCann" title="Colum McCann">Colum McCann</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Misrule_(novel)" title="Lord of Misrule (novel)">Lord of Misrule</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jaimy_Gordon" title="Jaimy Gordon">Jaimy Gordon</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Salvage_the_Bones" title="Salvage the Bones">Salvage the Bones</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jesmyn_Ward" title="Jesmyn Ward">Jesmyn Ward</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Round_House_(novel)" title="The Round House (novel)">The Round House</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Louise_Erdrich" title="Louise Erdrich">Louise Erdrich</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Good_Lord_Bird" title="The Good Lord Bird">The Good Lord Bird</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_McBride_(writer)" title="James McBride (writer)">James McBride</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Redeployment_(short_story_collection)" title="Redeployment (short story collection)">Redeployment</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Phil_Klay" title="Phil Klay">Phil Klay</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_Smiles" title="Fortune Smiles">Fortune Smiles</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Johnson_(writer)" title="Adam Johnson (writer)">Adam Johnson</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad_(novel)" title="The Underground Railroad (novel)"> The Underground Railroad</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Colson_Whitehead" title="Colson Whitehead">Colson Whitehead</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Sing,_Unburied,_Sing" title="Sing, Unburied, Sing">Sing, Unburied, Sing</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jesmyn_Ward" title="Jesmyn Ward">Jesmyn Ward</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Friend_(novel)" title="The Friend (novel)">The Friend</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Sigrid_Nunez" title="Sigrid Nunez">Sigrid Nunez</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Trust_Exercise" title="Trust Exercise">Trust Exercise</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Choi" title="Susan Choi">Susan Choi</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Interior_Chinatown" title="Interior Chinatown">Interior Chinatown</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Yu" title="Charles Yu">Charles Yu</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hell_of_a_Book" title="Hell of a Book">Hell of a Book</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jason_Mott" title="Jason Mott">Jason Mott</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rabbit_Hutch" title="The Rabbit Hutch">The Rabbit Hutch</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Tess_Gunty" title="Tess Gunty">Tess Gunty</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Blackouts_(novel)" title="Blackouts (novel)">Blackouts</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Justin_Torres" title="Justin Torres">Justin Torres</a> (2023)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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<li>Based in <b><a href="/wiki/Pottsville,_Pennsylvania" title="Pottsville, Pennsylvania"><span style="color: #000000;">Pottsville, Pennsylvania</span></a></b></li> <li>Formerly named the <b>Pottsville Eleven</b></li> <li>Became the <b><a href="/wiki/Pottsville_Maroons" title="Pottsville Maroons"><span style="color: #000000;">Boston Bulldogs</span></a></b> for the 1929 NFL season</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #FFB612 !important; color: #000000 !important; ;">Franchise</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pottsville_Maroons" title="Pottsville Maroons">Pottsville Maroons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Bulldogs_(NFL)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Bulldogs (NFL)">Boston Bulldogs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Pottsville_Maroons_players" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Pottsville Maroons 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title="Yuengling">Yuengling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">Coal mining</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #FFB612 !important; color: #000000 !important; ;">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1925_NFL_Championship_controversy" title="1925 NFL Championship controversy">1925 NFL Championship controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_Chicago_Cardinals%E2%80%93Milwaukee_Badgers_scandal" title="1925 Chicago Cardinals–Milwaukee Badgers scandal">1925 Chicago Cardinals–Milwaukee Badgers scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports-related_curses#Arizona_Cardinals" title="Sports-related curses">Cardinals Football Curse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Jackson" title="Perry Jackson">Perry Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnie_Shockley" title="Arnie Shockley">Arnie 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