A WRITER'S LIFE (2006) Gay Talese focuses on his own life--the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and his revelatory books. Talese gives us a fascinating picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness involved in getting a story. Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned--a dazzling book about the nature of one man's life, and of writing itself.
		UNTO THE SONS (1992) Gay Talese employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries of the new--into a place that tested their loyalties, their love, and their links with the past.
		THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE (1981) Although it shocked the world when it was first published in 1981, Gay Talese's exploration into the hidden and changing sex lives of Americans from all walks of lives is now considered a classic. A fascinating personal odyssey into the author's private self as well as a revealing public reflection on American sexuality.
		HONOR THY FATHER (1971) The story of the rise and fall of the notorious Bonanno crime family of New York. "Honor Thy Father" was the first true-to-life look at the Mafia from the inside. No other book has done more to acquaint this country with the fascinating feuds, secrets and frightening personalities of the secret organization known as the Mafia.
		THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER (1969) Although it appears that nothing could shatter The New York Times's cold and haughty facade, former Times correspondent Gay Talese has succeeded in revealing the stories behind the personalities, rivalries, scoops and headlines at the most influential paper in the world.
		FAME AND OBSCURITY (Includes "New York-A Serendipiter's Journey" [1961] and "The Bridge" [1964]). Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Floyd Patterson, Manhattan Mobsters, Bowery bums, pushcart makers, the chauffeur with a chauffeur, the head barber at the United Nations, and many others.