I spent the next eighteen years looking for my real name, and since I found it I have not pretended to be anyone else.'
In an essay titled 'A Dick by Any Other Name', O'Hara wrote: 'I knew from an early age that I was a changeling. Scott was known professionally as 'Scott O'Hara' or 'Spunk' and used his professional name throughout his adult life. While the family lived modestly on the family farm, there was inherited wealth, and for much of his life Scott was supported by a trust fund. O'Hara was born John Robert Scott on Octoin Grants Pass, Oregon, one of seven children of Robert Hogue Scott and Martha Jane (née Farwell) Scott.
