A writer's life
By: Gay Talese
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Publisher: Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
ISBN-13: 9780739326169
Subjects: Journalists; Biography; Large type books; Journalistes; Biographies; Livres en gros caractères; Large print books
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.