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Rome, May 2011
Photo by Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty Images Gay Talese is the bestselling author of eleven books. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1956 to 1965, and since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other national publications. Gay Talese was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. His groundbreaking article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was named the "best story Esquire ever published," and he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism." His most recent book, A Writer's Life, was published by Knopf in 2006 and reissued in trade paperback by The Random House Publishing Group in July 2007. A collection of his sportswriting, The Silent Season of a Hero, was published by Walker & Company in September 2010.
from the photo archives
Attending Tony Bennett's concert at The Metropolitan Opera House — New York, September 2011
Reading in the Roman Forum before an audience of 1,000 — Rome, May 2011
Madrid, May 2011
At the GILT MAN Fashion Week Dinner with Tyler Thoreson, Andy Cohen, and Sean Avery — New York, 2011
With the opera singer Marina Poplavskaya, the subject of his recent profile in The New Yorker — Moscow, 2010
In an opera house where Poplavskaya performed — Buenos Aires, 2010 
With Nan Talese — New York, 2009 |
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other books by Gay TaleseA Writer's Life
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works in progress*
Gay Talese is progressing with a new book for Knopf, based on his 50-year marriage. Click here to read New York Magazine's profile of Talese, in which he discusses the project. Gay Talese is under contract to write a story that will become the basis of a forthcoming Warner Brothers film about New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott. The story will center on the African-American matriarchy in a Detroit ghetto who ran interference for the young athlete. Mr. Talese was commissioned by the partners of Unique Features, Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, and began working on the project in early January 2010, spending a week in Detroit with Scott's grandmother and mother. Talese is assisting in the forthcoming series "Italians in America" that is being overseen by Jeff Bieber of WETA, the PBS affiliate station for Washington, D.C. *The above projects are handled by Talese's agent, Lynn Nesbit of Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Click here for print quality images of Gay Talese
Talese at Yankee Stadium with former Yankee star Reggie Jackson, before the final game of the post-season Yankees-Detroit Tigers series. Talese is working on an article on Yankees' manager Joe Girardi for The New Yorker— New York, October 6, 2011 
With Yogi Berra — Montclair, New Jersey, 2002
With Muhammad Ali — Havana, 1996
Gore Vidal, Gay Talese, Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer read George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" in a one-night performance benefiting the Actor's Studio — Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, February 15, 1993
As Don Juan — Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, February 15, 1993 |
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