WRITER

Frank O'Hara

1926 - 1966

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Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank O'Hara has received more than 857,476 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Frank O'Hara is the 5,054th most popular writer (up from 5,103rd in 2019), the 7,111th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,767th in 2019) and the 565th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The selected poems of Frank O'Hara
Poetry
1974
Meditations in an emergency
1967
Lunch Poems
Nurses and nursing, Psychology, Psychological aspects
Lunch Poems is a book of poetry by Frank O'Hara published in 1964 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights, number 19 in their Pocket Poets series.
1964
Poems
Poetry, City and town life, O'hara, Frank, 1926-1966
1971
Jackson Pollock
1959
Selected Poems
Poetry, Fiction
The overall arrangement of the poems is chronological. There is a brief chronology of O'Hara's short life and an index of titles.From the Trade Paperback edition.
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frank O'Hara ranks 5,054 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter S. Beagle, Naomi Klein, Mahmud Taymur, Arvid August Afzelius, Martín Luis Guzmán, and Mikalojus Daukša. After him are Roger Vercel, Jean Cassou, Kama Sywor Kamanda, Béatrix Beck, José Eustasio Rivera, and Eliza Acton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Frank O'Hara ranks 356. Before him are Joe Slovo, Anneliese Rothenberger, James Best, Dietmar Schönherr, Carlos Roberto Reina, and Julius Katchen. After him are Víctor Ugarte, Charlotte Rae, Hermann Kant, Kurt Schmied, Clifford Husbands, and Robert Jay Lifton. Among people deceased in 1966, Frank O'Hara ranks 168. Before him are Georges Theunis, Iosif Czako, Hilde Schrader, Julia Faye, Robert Charpentier, and Margery Allingham. After him are Herbert Marshall, Wallace Ford, Bernard Schmetz, Paula Strasberg, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and Felix Andries Vening Meinesz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank O'Hara ranks 7,111 out of 20,380. Before him are Bruce Glover (1932), Kay Sage (1898), Jerry Van Dyke (1931), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Alexandra Hedison (1969), and Rose Marie (1923). After him are Carol Shaw (1955), Craig Jones (1972), Jason Segel (1980), Charlotte Rae (1926), Edwin Hedley (1864), and Al Matthews (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Frank O'Hara ranks 565. Before him are Joanna Russ (1937), Paul Theroux (1941), William Gibson (1914), Chris Van Allsburg (1949), Walter J. Ong (1912), and Peter S. Beagle (1939). After him are Michael Cristofer (1945), Stephen Hunter (1946), Elaine May (1932), David Belasco (1853), John O'Hara (1905), and Alan Dean Foster (1946).

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