Profession(s):
screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, press agent, critic, newspaper reporter, soda jerk, steel mill worker, evaluating engineer, boat steward, amusement park guard, railroad freight clerk, gas meter reader
Sometimes Credited As:
Franey Delaney
John Henry O'Hara
Family
daughter:Wylie Delaney O'Hara (mother, Belle Mulford Wylie)
father:Patrick Henry O'Hara (died suddenly when O'Hara was still a teenager)
wife:Belle Mulford Wylie (married from December 3, 1937 until her death in January 1954)
wife:Helen Petit (married in 1931; divorced in 1933)
wife:Katherine Barnes Bryan (married from January 31, 1955 until his death)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal of Merit 1964
National Book Award Fiction "Ten North Frederick" 1956
New York Drama Critics Circle Award Best Musical "Pal Joey" 1951 - 1952
1955 Wrote novel "Ten North Frederick"
1941 Penned libretto for stage musical version of "Pal Joey" with score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
1940 Wrote novel "Pal Joey"
1936 Appeared in the film "The General Died at Dawn" as a reporter
1935 Put under contract as a screenwriter by Paramount (date approximate)
1934 Published first novel "Appointment at Samarra"
1924 - 1926 Began career as a journalist for the Pottsville Journal in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Moved to Chicago; worked various jobs
Settled in NYC; worked as a journalist, columnist and critic for various newspapers; occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Franey Delaney
Worked as a staff reporter for Time
Became a press agent for Warner Bros.
