Mary O'Hara





Mary O'Hara

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born
in Cape May Point, New Jersey, The United States
July 10, 1885

died
October 14, 1980

gender
female

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About this author

Mary O’Hara Alsop, an American author, screenwriter, and composer, was born July 10, 1885, in Cape May, N.J., to Reese Fell Alsop and Mary Lee (Spring). She grew up in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., where her father was an Episcopal clergyman.

In 1905, Ms. O'hara married Kent Kane Parrot, whom she later divorced. Her second marriage to Helge Sture-Vasa from Sweden in 1922 also ended in divorce in 1947. Ms. O’Hara had two children from her first marriage, Mary O’Hara who died of skin cancer during her teens, and Kent Kane, Jr.

Ms. O’Hara moved to California after her first marriage where she became a screenwriter during the silent film era through the advent of talking movies.

In 1930, during her second marriage, Ms O’Hara moved to a ranch in Wyoming...more


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“Looking backward through life, one can see the points of change like great locks through which one glides on a flood wave, so smoothly, on such irresistible power that one is hardly aware of any movement. But life is never the same again. One has gone through the lock and lives on a new level.”
Mary O'Hara, Green Grass of Wyoming

“I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.”
Mary O'Hara

“Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.

Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.”
Mary O'Hara, Een zoele zomer in Wyoming

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