A high-school dropout and former newspaper delivery boy from Brooklyn, Pete Hamill covered everything from the civil rights movement to 9/11, wrote for most of his day's leading magazines and authored 20 books. He has died at 85.
Legendary newspaperman and author Pete Hamill has died at the age of 85 in New York City, his hometown.
"He fell on Saturday and died this morning of heart and kidney failure," his longtime literary agent Esther Newberg told NPR in an email, adding,"One of a kind." The high-school dropout and former newspaper delivery boy from Brooklyn scrapped his way up the tabloid ranks back when those newsrooms boasted reporters and columnists such as Nora Ephron and William F. Buckley, as Hamill told WHYY's"These were not people who thought the audience was stupid," he said."They thought the audience was smart, and they wrote up to the audience instead of down.
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