Topic: Pete Hamill
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He has authored over a dozen books, written a syndicated newspaper column and countless essays and articles covering a broad range of...
Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935) is a prominent American journalist , columnist , novelist , and short story writer. Pete Hamill, Cosmoetica, 8/8/07, accessed Sept. 17, 2008. At home with Pete Hamill, The NY Times , accessed Feb 24 1994In the early 1950s ...
Pete Hamill's tenth novel, North River, takes the reader through Depression-era New York with tenderness and nostalgia. Although Delaney thinks he knows the whereabouts of his daughter because of the letter she left when she abandoned Carlito, he is concerned about ...
Were I to compare A Drinking Life to another work, perhaps a claim could be made that this is the male version of Betty Smith's great novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, where both the fictional Francie Nolan and the real ...