Edwin O'Connor
Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) 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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| Born | Edwin Greene O'Connor July 29, 1918 Providence, Rhode Island |
| Died | March 23, 1968 (aged 49) Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Education | University of Notre Dame (BA) |
| Spouse | Veniette Caswell Weil |
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