Pete Hamill, celebrated New York newspaper columnist, dies aged 85

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Self-taught ‘giant of journalism’ wrote on everything from baseball to the war in Vietnam and mixed with America’s elite

Pete Hamill, the self-taught, streetwise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and non-fiction, died on Wednesday morning. He was 85.

 

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He had such a wonderfully poetic turn of phrase - watched him only recently in the Bobby Kennedy for President Netflix series.

Was he not married to!?

R.I.P.

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