Pete Hamill, celebrated New York newspaper columnist, dies aged 85 | The Guardian

Self-taught ‘giant of journalism’ wrote on everything from baseball to the war in Vietnam and mixed with America’s elitePete Hamill, the self-taught, streetwise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and non-fiction, died on Wednesday morning. He was 85.Hamill died at a Brooklyn hospital from heart and kidney failure, his brother Denis confirmed in an email. Continue reading…

Self-taught ‘giant of journalism’ wrote on everything from baseball to the war in Vietnam and mixed with America’s elite

Pete Hamill, the self-taught, streetwise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and non-fiction, died on Wednesday morning. He was 85.

Hamill died at a Brooklyn hospital from heart and kidney failure, his brother Denis confirmed in an email.

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