Vincent  O'Sullivan

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Vincent O'Sullivan


Born
in New York City, The United States
November 28, 1868

Died
July 18, 1940

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Vincent O'Sullivan was an American short story writer, poet and critic. Born in New York City to Eugene and Christine O'Sullivan, he began his education in the New York public school system and completed it in Britain. He lived comfortably in London, traveling often to France, until in 1909 he lost his income from the family coffee business when his brother Percy made a spectacularly mistimed futures gamble at the New York Coffee Exchange. The entire family was ruined, and Vincent was destitute for the remaining years of his life.

His works dealt with the morbid and decadent. He was a friend of Oscar Wilde (to whom in his disgrace he was often generous), Leonard Smithers, Aubrey Beardsley and other fin-de-siècle figures. O'Sullivan produced
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A Book of Bargains

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Master of fallen years

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The Interval

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The Good Girl

3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1912 — 7 editions
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The Business of Madame Jahn

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The Houses of Sin

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1897 — 6 editions
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The next room

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