Edwin O'Connor

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

Biography

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

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

Finally, the novels were published I Was Dancing ( 1964) and All in the Family ( 1966).

Background literature

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

External links and sources

• Literature by and about Edwin O'Connor in the catalog that German national library
• Edwin O'Connor in the Notable Names Database (English)
• Edwin O'Connor at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography ( Biblio.com )
• Biography ( wdrcobg.com )
• Fantastic Fiction
• Books by Edwin O'Connor (Google Books)