Author

Publication

2006 - Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

185,250 words, Guess

Page Count

741 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC808/.0092
  • DDCB
  • LCCPN4874.T216 A3 2006b

Description

How has Talese found his subjects? What has stimulated, blocked, or inspired his writing? ere are his amateur beginnings on his college newspaper; his professional climb at The New York Times; his desire to write on a larger canvas, which led him to magazine writing at Esquire and then to books. We see his involvement with issues of race from his student days in the Deep South to a recent interracial wedding in Selma, Alabama, where he once covered the fierce struggle for civil rights. He takes us behind the scenes of his legendary profile of Frank Sinatra, his writings about Joe DiMaggio and heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, and his interview with the head of a Mafia family.

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  • A writer's lifeRandom House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf2006

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