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Oakley Hall

Born

in San Diego, The United States

July 01, 1920

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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 5,945 ratings · 859 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	Warlock (Legends West, #1) by Oakley Hall, Robert Stone (Introduction) 4.28 avg rating — 4,439 ratings — published 1958 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bad Lands (Legends West, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Many Doors 3.78 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1950 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art and Craft of Novel Writing 3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades (Ambrose Bierce, #1) 3.35 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apaches (Legends West, #3) 4.18 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love and War in California 3.84 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings (Ambrose Bierce, #2) 3.29 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Fiction Works: The Last Word on Writing Fiction, from Basics to the Fine Points 3.33 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks (Ambrose Bierce, #3) 3.21 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Legends West (3 books)
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Ambrose Bierce (5 books)
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Quotes by Oakley Hall (?)

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

tags: fiction, literature, philosophy, truth

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“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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“As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

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April 2023 New School Classic Group Read Poll

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, 1925, 123 pages

45 votes, 22.2%

White Noise by Don DeLillo, 310 pages, 1985

43 votes, 21.2%

Stamboul Train or Orient Express by Graham Greene, 216 pages, 1932

28 votes, 13.8%

Holes by Louis Sachar, 1998, 233 pages

23 votes, 11.3%

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 1921, 346 pages

19 votes, 9.4%

Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939, 229 pages

18 votes, 8.9%

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 1948, 316 pages

17 votes, 8.4%

Warlock by Oakley Hall, 1958, 471 pages

10 votes, 4.9%

203 total votes

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