Volume 50, Number 14 · September 25, 2003
Appointment with O'Hara
By Larry McMurtry
The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara
by Geoffrey Wolff
Knopf, 373 pp., $30.00
John O'Hara died in April 1970, and was buried in the old Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey, a burial ground that holds the remains of Grover Cleveland, Aaron Burr, the pollster George Gallup, and the parents of the murdering Menendez brothers of Beverly Hills. The governor of New Jersey attended the service, as did John Hay Whitney, Donald Klopfer of Random House, the cartoonist Charles Addams, and the wives of Bennett Cerf and John Steinbeck. There was a small herd of limousines, and O'Hara's own dark green Rolls, for family use.
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