Background
Talese, Gay was born on February 7, 1932 in Ocean City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph Francis and Catherine (DiPaola) Talese.
( A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying tr...)
A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime family On New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reappeared, setting off a bloody mob feud that came to be known as the “Banana War.” In this monumental work—packed with intimate details and brilliant reporting—bestselling author Gay Talese first brought to the American consciousness a world and a life previously known to only a few. No other book has done more to acquaint readers with the secrets, structure, wars, power plays, family lives, and fascinating, frightening personalities of the Mafia.
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"Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation. From the Paperback edition.
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( As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay...)
As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay Talese published his first book, New York--A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays that began, "New York is a city of things unnoticed. It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathedral, and thousands of ants creeping on top of the Empire State Building." Attention to detail and observation of the unnoticed is the hallmark of Gay Talese's writing, and The Gay Talese Reader brings together the best of his essays and classic profiles. This collection opens with "New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed," and includes "Silent Season of a Hero" (about Joe DiMaggio), "Ali in Havana," and "Looking for Hemingway" as well as several other favorite pieces. It also features a previously unpublished article on the infamous case of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, and concludes with the autobiographical pieces that are among Talese's finest writings. These works give insight into the progression of a writer at the pinnacle of his craft. Whether he is detailing the unseen and sometimes quirky world of New York City or profiling Ol' Blue Eyes in "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," Talese captures his subjects--be they famous, infamous, or merely unusual--in his own inimitable, elegant fashion. The essays and profiles collected in The Gay Talese Reader are works of art, each carefully crafted to create a portrait of an unforgettable individual, place or moment.
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(From front cover: Let's have a party. Let's invite Sinatr...)
From front cover: Let's have a party. Let's invite Sinatra, Peter O'Toole, Floyd Patterson, Josh Logan, George Plimpton, the staff of Vogue, Joe DiMaggio and lots of others. Let's find out the truth about the real New York. Let's call it: Fame and Obscurity.
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With a new preface and afterword by the author and drawings by Lili Rethi. Towards the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge--linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with New Jersey--was completed. It remains an engineering marvel almost forty years later--at 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening his book The Bridge appeared. Never before in paperback, it remains both a riveting human drama of politics and courage, and a demonstration of Talese's consummate skills as a reporter and storyteller. His memorable narrative--accompanied, as then, by the astonishingly beautiful working drawings of Lili Rethi--will now captivate a new generation of readers.
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(The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most ...)
The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.
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("An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At lon...)
"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, 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 and challenges of the new.
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( Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-li...)
Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion-from the construction workers high on the beams to the backroom dealing that displaced whole neighborhoods to make way for the bridge. Now in a new, beautifully packaged edition featuring dozens of breathtaking photos and architectural drawings, The Bridge remains both a riveting narrative of politics and courage and a demonstration of Talese's consummate skills as a reporter and storyteller. His memorable narrative will help celebrate the bridge's fiftieth anniversary and captivate a new generation of readers.
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Talese, Gay was born on February 7, 1932 in Ocean City, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph Francis and Catherine (DiPaola) Talese.
Bachelor in Journalism, University Alabama, 1953.
Copyboy New York Times, New York City, 1953—1954, staff writer, 1956—1965. Visiting writer University Southern California Professional Writing Program. Served with United States Army, 1954-1956.
( A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying tr...)
( As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay...)
( Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge-li...)
(The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most ...)
( With a new preface and afterword by the author and draw...)
(From front cover: Let's have a party. Let's invite Sinatr...)
(Illustrations by Stanislav Zagorski. Talese's second book...)
("An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At lon...)
("Fascinating . . . Poignant." The Wall Street Journal In...)
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (vice president 1984-1987, board directors), Phi Sigma Kappa.
Married Nan Ahearn, June 10, 1959. Children: Pamela, Catherine.