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Edwin O'Connor

American journalist and fiction writer (1918-1968) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 49

Edwin Greene O'Connor 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). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1962

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Country
United States
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 1968 · aged 49

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