A Writer's Life

Name: A Writer's Life
Author: Gay Talese

by Gay Talese

Memoir about the author's decades-long career as a journalist and writer

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Gay Talese

American journalist and co-founder of New Journalism whose profiles of Frank Sinatra, the New York Times, and the Mafia set the standard for long-form magazine writing. Thy Neighbor's Wife was a pioneering exploration of the sexual revolution. His meticulous reporting and novelistic prose defined the form.

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