welcomeGay Talese is a bestselling author who has written 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.
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"Gay Talese's outré method of framing and developing his 'factual short stories' was as groundbreaking as it is still arresting. As this marvel of an anthology makes manifest, Talese transformed sportswriting into literature that is both serious and delightful." Click here for more reviews!
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
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