Pete Hamill
Editor, author
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- Date of Birth
- 06/24/1935 (74 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, NY
- Undergrad
- Pratt Institute
- Neighborhood
- Tribeca
- Other Residences
- Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Filed Under
- Media
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Brooklyn born, High school dropout, Irish-American, Veteran, The New Yorker, Former alcoholic, Been to rehab
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Who
A longtime newspaper columnist and editor, Hamill is the only person who can claim to have been editor-in-chief of both the Daily News and the New York Post. A memoirist and novelist, his notable books of the last decade include 2004's Downtown: My Manhattan and 1997's A Drinking Life, an account of his struggle with alcoholism.
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