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Biography. Pete Hamill (born June 2. American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City with his wife, writer Fukiko Aoki and has two daughters Adriene and Deirdre Hamill and one grandson. Pete Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, N. Y., the first of seven children of Catholic immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
His father, Billy Hamill, emigrated in 1. Brooklyn. Pete's mother, Anne Devlin, arrived in New York in 1. Billy and Anne met in 1. He worked as a clerk in a grocery chain, in a war plant after 1. Anne, who graduated from high school in Belfast, worked in Wanamaker's department store, as a domestic (before she married), a part- time nurses' aide, and as a casher in the RKO movie chain. Their son Peter was educated at Holy Name of Jesus grammar school and had his first newspaper job when he was 1.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 1. 94. 9, he won a scholarship to the prestigious Regis High School in Manhattan. But he dropped out near the end of his second year and went to work as an apprentice sheet metal worker in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In June 2. 01. 0, Regis awarded him an honorary diploma, 5. He was then absorbed in trying to become a comic book artist, and while working in the Navy Yard, attended night classes at the School of Visual Arts (then called the Cartoonists and Illustrators School). In the fall of 1. U. S. Navy. When he was discharged a few years later, he was entitled to the G.
I. Bill of Rights. In the fall of 1. Mexico City College, trying to become a painter. At the end of that Mexican year, he had decided to become a writer.
Journalism. In the summer of 1. Hamill went to work as a reporter for the New York Post and began to learn his craft (the story is told in his 1. A Drinking Life.) In 1. Europe as a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. Based for six months in Barcelona, and five months in Dublin, he roamed Europe, interviewing actors, movie directors, novelists and ordinary citizens.
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He was in Belfast with his father on Nov. John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and he witnessed both sides of the sectarian quarrel mourning the fallen American president. Hamill returned to New York in August 1. Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, and worked briefly at the New York Herald Tribune as a feature writer. In the fall of 1.
New York Post. By Christmas, he was in Vietnam. His newspaper career would go on for decades, at the Post, the New York Daily News, the Village Voice, and New York Newsday. He would serve briefly as editor of the Post, and later as editor- in- chief- of the Daily News. His longer journalistic work has appeared in New York magazine, the New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and other periodicals.
From the beginning, he has been a generalist, not a specialist. He has written about wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon and Northern Ireland.
He covered the urban riots of the 1. He has covered local and national politics.
He wrote about the New York underclass too, their hopes and ambitions, and sometimes, tragedies. But he also wrote about jazz, rock 'n' roll (winning a 1. Grammy for Best Liner Notes for Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"), boxing, baseball, and art. At different periods (in addition to Barcelona and Dublin), he has lived in Mexico City, San Juan, P. R., Rome, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, N. M. He has always returned to New York.
Two collections of his selected journalism have been published: "Irrational Ravings" (1. Piecework" (1. 99. He edited for Library of America two volumes of the journalism of A. J. Liebling. In 1. News Is A Verb" (Ballantine). Fiction. In the summer of 1.
Hamill published his first novel, a thriller called "A Killing for Christ," about a plot to assassinate the Pope on Easter Sunday in Rome. This was followed by a short semi- autobiographical novel called "The Gift", where he first began using his Brooklyn roots in a fictional form. Most of his fiction is also set in New York City, including "Snow in August" (1. Forever" (2. 00. 3), "North River" (2. Tabloid City" (2. The Christmas Kid" (2. In addition, he has published more than 1.
O. Henry to Alberto Moravia. In the New York Post, the Hamill short stories were part of a series called "The Eight Million." In the Daily News, the stories ran under the title "Tales of New York." He has published two volumes of short stories: "The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook" (Random House.
Tokyo Sketches" (Kodansha. Memoirs, Art, Photography and Comics.
Hamill's 1. 99. 4 memoir, "A Drinking Life", was a critical and commercial success. It chronicled his journey from childhood into his thirties, his embrace of drinking and the decision to abandon it. The late Frank Mc. Court once told him that Hamill's book encouraged him to complete his own memoir, "Angela's Ashes." Hamill's portrait of "Downtown: My Manhattan" (Little, Brown. Manhattan where he has spent much of his adult life. It includes some of his own reporting on the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 1.
His passions for art and for Mexico drive his book on the muralist Diego Rivera (Abrams. Rivera's art. In "Tools as Art" (Abrams. Hechinger Collection, exploring the idea of tools and the way artists see them (and use them).
His biographical essay on the artist was featured in "Underground Together: The Art and Life of Harvey Dinnerstein" (Chronicle Books. Much of Dinnerstein's work is infused with the light of Hamill's Brooklyn, and the people who live there, walking its streets, riding its ferries and subways. Hamill has often said that he has learned much from photographers, and he has written often about their work. In "New York: City of Islands" (Monacelli Press. Watch Tropa De Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora E Outro Download Full. Jake Rajs. "New York Exposed: Photographs from the Daily News" (Abrams.
New York Daily News and its crucial role in the story of photography in American journalism. In his introduction to "Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond" (Aperture.
Hamill tells the story of Agustin Victor Casasola, whose great photographs helped define the Revolution of 1. In his introduction to "A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life From the Pages of the Forward" (Norton. Hamill evokes the great days of the Yiddish press. His text for "The Times Square Gym" (Evan.
John Goodman's superb photographs. His introduction to "Garden of Dreams: Madison Square Garden" (Stewart Tabori & Chang. Watch Mad Cowgirl Online Free 2016. George Kalinski. His own Irish heritage permeates the text for "The Irish Face in America" (Bulfinch.
Jim Smith. Hamill has also written about the effect of comics on his life (he has a collection of framed comic strip originals above his desk). Among his writings are an introduction to "Terry and the Pirates" Volume two" by Milton Caniff (Library of American Comics. He wrote an introductory text for a new version of Al Hirschfeld's "The Speakeasies of 1. Glenn Young. 2. 00. Most recently, he contributed an introduction to "Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics" (Abrams. The Joker. Awards and Honors. Across five decades, Hamill has received numerous awards and honors.
Among them: 2. 01. Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award.
New York Media Legends Award. Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters.
George Polk Career Award. Irish American of the Year (Irish Echo)2.
De. Witt Clinton Award for Excellence. Pratt Institute Legends Award. A. J. Liebling Award presented by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Louis Auchincloss Prize presented by Museum of the City of New York. Honorary Doctorate Degree from St. John's University. Honorary High School Diploma from Regis High School in New York City.
The New York City 4. Most Influential New Yorkers in Past 4. Years. 20. 05 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. Columbia Journalism Award for lifetime achievement. Listed as one of the noted Irish- Americans of the 2. Century by Irish- America Magazine.
Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Hall of Fame. Denver Press Club's Damon Runyon Award.