Edwin O'Connor

Edwin O'Connor
BornEdwin Greene O'Connor
(1918-07-29)July 29, 1918
Providence, Rhode Island
DiedMarch 23, 1968(1968-03-23) (aged 49)
Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation
EducationUniversity of Notre Dame (BA)
SpouseVeniette Caswell Weil

Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968)[1] 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.[2][3]

  1. ^ Kelley, Margot Anne (2000). "O'Connor, Edwin Greene (1918-1968), writer". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601219. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
  2. ^ Fanning, Charles (2000) [1990]. The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. p. 316. ISBN 9780813109701.
  3. ^ (24 March 1968). Prize Winning Author Edwin O'Connor Dies, Oxnard Press-Courier (Associated Press story)