About John Myers O'Hara
Lived 1870 – 1944 (aged 73–74). John Myers O'Hara was an American translator and poet.
John Myers O'Hara (1870–1944) was an American poet.
Born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa into a wealthy family from Chicago, he studied at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Chicago for twelve years. is used as the epigraph to Jack London's The Call of the Wild:
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Who was John Myers O'Hara?
American poet (1870-1944)
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John Myers O'Hara was born in 1870.
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John Myers O'Hara died in 1944.
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John Myers O'Hara was a translator and poet.
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John Myers O'Hara was American.
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