Gay Talese

Gay Talese
Gay Talese
Born
Gaetano Talese

(1932-02-07) February 7, 1932
EducationUniversity of Alabama, graduated 1953
OccupationWriter
Years active1961–present
SpouseNan A. Talese (m. 1959)
Children2

Gaetano "Gay" Talese (/təˈliːz/; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer and journalist. He was a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s.[1][2] Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Gay Talese (July 2, 2009). "Once Around the Island With Gay Talese". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Gay Talese (February 17, 2009). "When Panhandlers Need a Wordsmith's Touch". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Sarah Ellison (June 13, 2011). "A New Kingdom: Gay Talese Sounds Off On The New York Times—Past, Present, and Future". Vanity Fair.
  4. ↑ Vanessa V. Friedman (August 11, 1995). "It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?: 'Esquire' in the Sixties (book review)". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 1, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ Jonathan Van Meter (April 26, 2009). "A Nonfiction Marriage". New York Magazine.