Background
Frank Ward O'Malley was born on November 30, 1875, in Pittston, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Catherine (Ward) O'Malley.
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Frank Ward O'Malley was born on November 30, 1875, in Pittston, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Catherine (Ward) O'Malley.
Frank O'Malley's academic education was limited to a high school at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, but his ambition to be either an architect or an artist led him to spend ten years in pursuing special courses at the Art Students League, Washington, D. C. (1894 - 95), the University of Notre Dame (1896 - 98), and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1899 - 1902).
When Frank O'Malley arrived in New York in 1902, he found no place for artistic expression except as a commercial illustrator. Seeing that his casual light verse and humorous articles found a fair market in newspapers, he became a special writer on the Morning Telegraph, a daily devoted to racing, the theatre, and the night life of Broadway. His articles attracted the attention of the Sun, which engaged him as a reporter in 1906. Frank's success was instant, not only on account of his humorous treatment of trivial happenings, but also because of his accurate and dramatic relation of serious events. The account of the Triangle shirt-waist factory fire, in which 150 persons lost their lives, is a good example of his ability to write "straight news. " Some O'Malley's interviews were used as models by teachers of journalism. He resigned from the Sun in 1920 with the intention of writing something less ephemeral than newspaper articles.
From 1920 to 1932 he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post twenty-eight articles, humorous or satirical, touching on life both in the United States and in Europe. Two of his articles, published in the American Mercury, dealt with the virtues and weaknesses of the Irish in the United States.
He wrote two books, The War-Whirl in Washington (1918) and The Swiss Family O'Malley (1928), and in collaboration with E. W. Townsend, two plays, The Head of the House (1909) and A Certain Party (1910); the plays had little success.
Frank O'Malley died in Tours, France, in 1932.
Frank O'Malley wrote articles to some famous newspapers: The Morning Telegraph, The Sun, The Saturday Evening Post. O'Malley wrote two books: The War-Whirl in Washington (1918) and The Swiss Family O'Malley (1928); and in collaboration with E. W. Townsend, two plays: The Head of the House (1909) and A Certain Party (1910).
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Frank O'Malley wrote of himself that he was "a reporter on the Sun for fourteen years, thirteen of which were spent in Jack's restaurant".
O'Malley's lack of valuable productivity in his later years may be laid to the fact that he was more interested in life itself than in the portrayal of it. He was a delightful companion, ever eager to discuss any subject, and much sought for his candor, graciousness, and wit. His only bitterness was directed at prohibition (National Prohibition Act, 1919), which he denounced publicly and privately with vehemence and to which he attributed his long stays in Europe. This hatred was not lessened when diabetes prevented him from using spirits.
On September 1, 1917, Frank O'Malley was married to Grace Edsall Dalrymple. They had a son and a daughter.
