... Roger Ebert's Teacher Calls O'Hara:
'A first-rate second-rate writer.'
In Maureen Dowd's review Sunday of Ebert's new memoir, Life Itself, she quotes Ebert's former teacher at the University of Illinois, Daniel Curley, as denoting O'Hara to that category. Sinclair Lewis also so desiginated by Curley. No comment from Roger Ebert.
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