Gay Talese
Gay Talese | |
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Talese in 2006 | |
| Born | Gaetano Talese February 7, 1932 Ocean City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Alma mater | University of Alabama |
| Genre | Literary journalism, New Journalism |
| Years active | 1961–present |
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| Children | 2 |
Gaetano "Gay" Talese (/təˈliːz/; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.