Edwin O'Connor was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1918 and graduated from the University of Notre Dame. He worked as a journalist, novelist and radio figure in the Boston area, and drew on his Irish heritage to write about politicians and priests.
His books include The Oracle (1951), The Last Hurrah (1956), The Edge of Sadness (1961) and All in the Family (1966). The Edge of Sadness won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He died in Boston in 1968.
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