welcomeGay 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.
from the photo archives
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
Gay Talese as Don Juan — Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, February 15, 1993
Gay Talese with Muhammad Ali — Havana, 1996
Gay Talese with Yogi Berra — Montclair, New Jersey, 2002 |
new releases
A Writer's Life
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other books by Gay Talese
works in progress*
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. Talese is consulting with actor-director Stanley Tucci on the HBO series that will be based on Talese's 1992 bestseller for Knopf Unto the Sons. *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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