Hamill was a self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and nonfiction.
Hamill was a self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction and nonfiction.
A giant in the newspaper world passed away Wednesday. Pete Hamill died at the age of 85. He was known as a columnist who covered..