Edwin O'Connor

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Edwin Greene O'Connor (born July 29, 1918 in Providence , Rhode Island , † March 23, 1968 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for novels in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness .

biography

The son of a doctor studied after attending La Salle Academy in Providence at the University of Notre Dame and graduated in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). During the Second World War he did his military service in the US Coast Guard . He later settled in Woonsocket , worked as a freelance journalist and wrote articles for The Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Herald under the pseudonym "Roger Swift" . He has also worked on several radio stations such as WPRO Providence and WNAC Boston .

He began his writing career in the 1950s and published his debut novel The Oracle in 1951 . One of his most famous novels is The Last Hurray (1956), which was filmed in 1958 by John Ford with Spencer Tracy as and was shown in German cinemas under the title The Last Hurray . After Benji: A Ferocious Fairy Tale (1957), the novel The Edge of Sadness appeared in 1961 , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Novels in 1962.

Most recently, the novels I Was Dancing (1964) and All in the Family (1966) appeared.

Background literature

  • Charles F. Duffy: A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O'Connor , (2003)

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The story of Edwin O'Connor's forgotten life - Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O'Connor - Book Review ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
personal data
SURNAME O'Connor, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Connor, Edwin Greene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1968
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts