John O'Hara was a prolific and recognized author-until his support for Barry Goldwater changed everything. John O’Hara: The Novelist Whose Conservatism Robbed Him of Fame - The American Conservative ...

Author John O'Hara, Pottsville's Not-So-Favorite Son. November 21, 2007. The woods are full of writers who had acrimonious relationships with their home towns, but John O'Hara , right, deserves ...

BY CHRISTINE LEEWhen author John O’Hara thought about his hometown, it wasn’t in the most favorable light, according to Schuylkill County Historical Society Executive Director Diana Prosymchak ...

Tom Nolan is the author of "Ross Macdonald: A Biography." Ever since he burst onto the scene in 1934 at the age of 29 with his dazzling first novel, “Appointment in Samarra,” appreciating John ...

POTTSVILLE — Two days before what would have been John O’Hara’s 120th birthday, a group of readers got together to discuss the author’s best-known novel, “Appointment in Samarra.” O ...

When San Francisco Chronicle photographer John O’Hara was on assignment, he was often walking backward or sideways, hustling to stay ahead of the news coming at him. He’d have one camera up to ...

The Conviction Review Unit reports almost always conceal the identity and misconduct of the bad prosecutors. That’s a problem because nobody ever got wrongfully convicted in a courtroom by ...

ELIZABETH APPLETON (310 pp.)—John O'Hara—Random House ($4.95). Roughly four years ago, John O'Hara abandoned his long attempt to serve up the Great American novel in three-deck ...

Sgt. John O'Hara, on the job for 36 more years after he was shot in 1986 by a drug kingpin dubbed “Loco Larry’’ -- is officially retired.