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Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961).
May 30, 2015 · Edwin O'Connor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961).
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Mar 28, 2023 · Learn about the life and works of Edwin O’Connor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Edge of Sadness and The Last Hurrah. Explore how he portrayed the Irish-American experience, the Catholic church and the political world in his fiction.
Edwin O'Connor has 32 books on Goodreads with 14322 ratings. Edwin O'Connor’s most popular book is The Edge of Sadness.
The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United States for 20 weeks, and was also on lists for bestseller of that year.
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Edwin Greene O’Connor was a widely popular novelist in the 1950’s who also served as a social historian, focusing on the Irish American experience.
A native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and a graduate of Notre Dame in 1939, EDWIN O’CONNOR is on his way to becoming the most distinguished novelist in New England, THE LIST HURRAH winner of the...
