John O'Hara
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"O’Hara may not have been the best story writer of the twentieth century, but he is the most addictive," wrote Lorin Stein, then editor-in-chief of ''The Paris Review'', in a 2013 appreciation of O'Hara's work. Stein added, "You can binge on his collections the way some people binge on ''Mad Men'', 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."
O'Hara achieved substantial commercial success in the years after World War II, when his fiction repeatedly appeared in ''Publishers Weekly's'' annual list of the top ten best-selling fiction works in the United States. These best sellers included ''A Rage to Live'' (1949), ''Ten North Frederick'' (1955), ''From the Terrace'' (1959), ''Ourselves to Know'' (1960), ''Sermons and Soda Water'' (1960) and ''Elizabeth Appleton'' (1963). Five of his works were adapted into popular films in the 1950s and 1960s.
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. After O'Hara's death, John Updike, 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." Provided by Wikipedia
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