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...Instead of tackling this question, Biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli takes up the late O'Hara's cudgels and flails away at the writer's "enemies." "For the record," declares Bruccoli...
...HARA CONCERN by MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI 417 pages. Illustrated. Random House...
...failed preppie from Pottsville, Pa., John O'Hara did not turn out so badly. He published 13 novels and 374 short stories during his 65 years. His Pal Joey sketches inspired the book for one of Broadway's landmark musicals. He was celebrated in New York and Hollywood and enjoyed an income of millions. He was even lucky in love: after the death of his beloved second wife...
Belle, he married another woman equally devoted to him and his work. He was also the most miserable, self-sorrowing author in the American pantheon. The reasons seem as petty as his tantrums: Yale would not give O'Hara an honorary degree, the critics curtsied to Faulkner and Hemingway but not to him, the Nobel Prize was never to be his. Successful beyond avarice, O'Hara proceeded to fume through life like the eternal arriviste...
...Hara Concern is intentionally biased by my conviction that John O'Hara was a major writer who was underrated by the critical-academic axis sometimes called The Literary Establishment." If such an axis existed, Bruccoli would be a card-carrying member; as a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and director of the Center for Editions of American Authors (a far-flung scholarly empire churning out overfootnoted and overpriced texts), he is a totally critical academic...