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Novelist, Journalist, Social Commentator

Born January 31st, 1905, Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Died April 11th, 1970, Princeton, New Jersey

Biography:

John O’Hara demonstrated a remarkable talent for storytelling and writing from a young age. Named Class Poet and valedictorian at his secondary school in New York, O’Hara was set to attend Yale in 1924 when his father passed suddenly, leaving his family without the means to do so. This shock sharpened O’Hara’s sense of class difference and social injustice.

After graduating from Niagara Prep in Lewiston, New York, he worked as a reporter and then a short story writer for magazines. Living in New York and later Princeton, O’Hara became a regular fixture of the New Yorker magazine, publishing 200 short stories through the ‘20’s and ‘30’s. He spent WWII as a combat correspondent in the Pacific Theater, and later decades writing further novels and stories. His career as a columnist continued after the war, and he was known for his politically conservative commentary, unequivocally supporting Barry Goldwater for President in the 1

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John O'Hara (Brooklyn politician)

American lawyer

John Kennedy O'Hara (born c. 1961^[1]) is an American lawyer, active in Brooklyn, New York politics. He is also the first person convicted of illegal voting in New York State since Susan B. Anthony was convicted for voting (before women had the right to vote) in 1872.^[2]^[3] He was exonerated of the crime on Thursday, January 12, 2017.^[4] On February 23, 2017, O'Hara filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit for $25 million against disgraced ex-Brooklyn D. A. Charles "Joe" Hynes.^[5]

The son of working-class Irish Americans and the first in his family to go to college,^[6] O'Hara's interest in politics was clear even in childhood: at the age of seven he wrote to his congressman complaining that he didn't have the right to vote but was still required to pay sales tax on toys. At the age of 11 he worked on George McGovern's campaign in the 1972 presidential election. At 16, his investigative reporting for his school newspaper resulted in the school principal being fired for l

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John Paul Smith

John O'Hara, considered in his day a gifted yet controversial writer of both novels and short stories, was born on January 31, 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He spent time in Pennsylvania for the early part of his childhood until his parents decided to send him off to Niagara Preparatory School in Niagara, New York. He graduated in 1924. When O'Hara's father died, his family went into poverty. For that reason, O'Hara couldn't go to college. He went to work as a reporter for various newspapers in Pennsylvania until 1926. For the rest of the twenties he traveled around the country until he settled in New York and got a job with the Hollywood columnist Heywood Broun. In 1928, O'Hara's published his first short story in The New Yorker Magazine. He would eventually become a regular contributor to the magazine.

In 1934, O'Hara published his first novel Appointment in Samarra. This novel was a major success along with his second novel Butterfield 8. These novels established O'Hara as a big time novelist. In 1940, one of O'Hara's novel Pal Joey was turn