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O'Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character

Fran Lebowitz

A man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well

Ernest Hemingway

O'Hara occupies a unique position...He is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust

Lionel Trilling, New York Times

More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come

Los Angeles Times