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Edwin O'Connor
1918–1968
American journalist and fiction writer. Wrote The Last Hurrah (1958).
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961).
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He is remembered for coining the phrase "the last hurrah".
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Films in this guide
1950s
- The Last Hurrah (1958)screenwriter