Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017)
Autor de La banda que disparaba torcido
Sobre El Autor
Jimmy Breslin was born James Earle Breslin on October 17, 1928 in Queens, New York. In the late 1940's, The Long Island Press hired him as a copy boy. After getting a job as a sportswriter for The New York Journal-American, he wrote a book about the first season of the Mets entitled Can't Anybody mostrar más Here Play This Game? This book led to him being hired as a news columnist for The New York Herald Tribune in 1963. He later wrote for The New York Post, The Daily News, New York Newsday, and New York magazine. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction books. His novels included The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight; World Without End, Amen; and Table Money. His nonfiction books included The Good Rat, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me, The Church That Forgot Christ, and biographies of Damon Runyon and Branch Rickey. He died on March 19, 2017 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Obras de Jimmy Breslin
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year (1963) 113 copias
Collected Nonfiction: How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin (2018) 3 copias
Digging JFK Grave Was His Honor 1 copia
The Good Rat: A true story 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Breslin, Jimmy
- Nombre legal
- Breslin, James Earle
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928-10-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-03-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- pneumonia
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- columnist
novelist - Organizaciones
- Newsday
- Premios y honores
- Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 1986)
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- ISBNs
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