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Oakley Hall

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born

July 01, 1920 in San Diego, The United States

died

May 12, 2008

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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Oakley Hall also wrote under the nom de plume of O.M. Hall and Jason Manor.

Oakley Maxwell Hall was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names "O.M. Hall" and "Jason Manor." Hall received his Master of Fine Arts in English from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

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Books by Oakley Hall

Average rating: 4.05 · 641 ratings · 125 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Warlock by Oakley Hall, Robert Stone (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 1958 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Love and War in California: A Novel 3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Art and Craft of Novel Writing 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades 3.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	How Fiction Works: The Last Word on Writing Fiction--From Basics to the Fine Points. 3.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings 3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Bad Lands (Legends West, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Oakley Hall

Legends West (3 books)
by Oakley Hall

4.32 avg rating — 450 ratings

Ambrose Bierce (5 books)
by Oakley Hall

3.24 avg rating — 99 ratings

Quotes by Oakley Hall

“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

tags: cautionary , moral , practical , sardonic , wisdom

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“Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

tags: analysis , cultural , realistic , troubling

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“Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock