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Pete Hamill (born
June 24,
1935) is a prominent
American journalist,
novelist, and
short story writer. He is currently on the staff of
The New Yorker.
Hamill was born in the
Park Slope section of
Brooklyn as the oldest of seven children of Catholic immigrants from
Belfast,
Northern Ireland. He attended Catholic schools as a child, primarily Holy Name of Jesus Grammar School followed by a scholarship to the prestigious
Regis High School in NYC, which he left at the age of 16 to work in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard as a sheet metal worker, and then joined the
United States Navy.
His brothers Denis and John Hamill are also writers.
Denis Hamill writes for the
New York Daily News (see
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In the early 1950s, he studied at the
School of Visual Arts. In 1960, Hamill began working as a reporter for the
New York Post. In subsequent years, he became one of the city's best known reporters, as columnist for the Post, the
New York Daily News, and
Newsday. As a foreign correspondent, he covered wars in
Vietnam,
Nicaragua,
Lebanon and Northern Ireland. In different periods, Hamill was editor-in-chief of both the
New York Post and the
New York Daily News. His work landed him on the
master list of Nixon political opponents.
Hamill published two collections of journalism, a book about the relationship of tools to art, and a book about New York City, along with
Why Sinatra Matters, an essay on the music of the late singer. His articles have also appeared in the
Village Voice,
Esquire,
Vanity Fair,
Playboy and
New York.
Hamill has also written fiction, producing eight novels and two collections of short stories. He also published a memoir,
A Drinking Life, which detailed how he overcame his
alcoholism.
Bibliography
- North River (2007)
- Downtown : My Manhattan (2004, nonfiction)
- Forever (2003)
- Why Sinatra Matters (2003, nonfiction)
- Snow in August (1998)
- A Drinking Life : A Memoir (1995, nonfiction)
- Loving Women
- The Guns of Heaven (1984)
- The Deadly Piece
- Flesh and Blood
- Dirty Laundry
- The Gift
- A Killing for Christ
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