Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill is an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a New York City journalist, as the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York Citys politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime. Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and The New York Daily News.

The eldest of seven children of Catholic immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Pete Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. His father, Billy Hamill, lost a leg as the result of an injury in a semipro soccer game in Brooklyn. Hamills mother, Anne Devlin, a high school graduate in Belfast, arrived in New York on the day the stock market crashed in 1929. Billy Hamill met Anne Devlin in 1933 and they married the following year. Billy Hamill had jobs as a grocery clerk, in a war plant, and later in a factory producing lighting fixtures. Anne Hamill was employed in Wanamakers department store, and also worked as a domestic, a nurses aide, and a cashier in the RKO movie chain. His brother Denis would also grow up to become a columnist for the Daily News.

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