Traces the enigmatic twentieth-century writers childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining town, early working days, combative four-decade relationship with The New Yorker, and literary accomplishments. Traces the enigmatic twentieth-century writers childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining town, early working days, combative relationship with The New Yorker over four decades, and literary accomplishments in the shadow of his contemporaries. 40,000 first printing. An enigma of twentieth-century literature - a writer accorded great importance in his time, if less than in his own mind - is here explored by one of our most versatile men of letters, a novelist and biographer ideally suited to the strange case of John OHara.What Geoffrey Wolff reveals is not only the hugely complicated man in full but also his rightful place in our contemporary attention - a portrait of the artist that illuminates both the process of fiction and an era still vivid in our cultural history.
