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 ...

John O’Hara’s books include “Butterfield 8,” “From the Terrace” and “Ten North Frederick,” all of which were made into movies starring Hollywood legends Elizabeth Taylor, ...

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 ...

Rediscovering John O’Hara. By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic . ... A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author or editor of nine books, including “Sidewalking: ...

John O’Hara’s midcentury novels track with anthropological rigor the lives of middle-class Americans scrambling for ... If a reader swore off every famous author who was an abrasive egomaniac, ...

John O’Hara published 374 short stories, 14 novels ... After he became a bestselling author, O’Hara so aggressively campaigned for an honorary degree from Yale that Kingman Brewster, ...

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 ...