John O’Hara

John O’Hara (born Jan. 31, 1905, Pottsville, Pa., U.S.—died April 11, 1970, Princeton, N.J.) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction stands as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s through the 1940s. O’Hara was raised in Pottsville, Pa., which appears in his fiction as Gibbsville, a typical small town in the United States. He planned to enter Yale after high school but instead left home following the death of...