{"id":40857,"date":"2020-08-05T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pete-hamill-legendary-post-columnist-and-author-dead-at-85\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:56:00","slug":"pete-hamill-legendary-post-columnist-and-author-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pete-hamill-legendary-post-columnist-and-author-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pete Hamill, legendary Post columnist and author, dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Pete Hamill, legendary Post columnist and author, dead at 85<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 5, 2020 |<\/span> 9:56am |<\/span> Updated August 5, 2020 | 10:57am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPete Hamill, the consummate New York news<\/a>paperman and novelist whose 15-year career at the New York Post included stints as a columnist and editor, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 85.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hamill fell at his Brooklyn home Saturday after returning from dialysis, his brother, writer Denis Hamill, told The Post.<\/p>\n

He was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital \u2014 the same place he was born \u2014 when \u201chis kidneys and heart failed him,\u201d the brother said.<\/p>\n

Hamill was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn to Northern Irish immigrant parents, Billy and Anne.<\/p>\n

In 1960, the high school dropout\u00a0 began working as a reporter for the Post where he \u201cbegan to learn his craft,\u201d according to his online biography. He penned columns for the Post for 12 years and worked as a columnist for Newsday, Village Voice and the New York Daily News. He also wrote for Esquire, Rolling Stone and New York Magazine.<\/p>\n

Part of Hamill\u2019s Post legacy includes his notorious refusal to step down as editor \u2014 moving his desk to a diner near the newsroom in protest of then-owner Abraham Hirschfeld amid mass layoffs in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

A George Polk Career Award winner and Irish America Hall of Fame inductee, Hamill also wrote dozens of novels, including his 1994 memoir \u201cA Drinking Life\u201d and bestseller \u201cForever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamill and fellow tabloid trailblazer Jimmy Breslin ran the city as dueling reporters \u2014 and forever friends. The pair were hailed as \u201ctwo of the most celebrated newspapermen of the 20th century\u201d in the 2018 HBO documentary \u201cBreslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breslin, also a George Polk Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, died in 2017 at age 88.<\/p>\n

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In 1977, he outed Hamill for dating one of the most famous women in the world, Jackie Onassis.<\/p>\n

Tributes to Hamill began pouring in online from colleagues including former New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman, who tweeted: \u201cDevastating news: Word has come that Pete Hamill died this morning. The world just became a far less interesting place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other fellow scribes posted some of Hamill\u2019s best advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cRIP Pete Hamill, a walking inspiration to so many of us,\u201d Times writer-at-large Jim Rutenberg wrote. \u201cHe was the journalist we all wanted to be, with the life we all wanted to live. The best advice he ever gave me: \u2018ALWAYS check the clips.\u2019 So basic yet somehow so often forgotten. His legacy and work live on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Malone, a deputy editor and reporter at Broadcasting & Cable magazine, recalled, \u201cPete Hamill wrote to me in \u201994, \u2018Your \u2018bar-hopping\u2019 piece was passed to me (like a secret document at the height of the Cold War) and it\u2019s damned good stuff. Most of all, the tone\u2026the hardest thing to get right.\u2019 He concluded, \u2018Write, unite\u2026and enjoy your life too.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamill\u2019s wife, former journalist Fukiko Aoki, could not immedia<\/a>tely be reached.<\/p>\n

In his online biography, Hamill describes himself as \u201ca general<\/a>ist, not a specialist,\u201d writing about everything from international wars to local and national politics to rock \u2018n\u2019 roll legends like Bob Dylan and John Lennon during a storied career that took him around the world.<\/p>\n

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But, as his biography noted, \u201che has always returned to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Hamill\u2019s last interviews was to the Times in November, in which he discussed his lengthy career as one of New York\u2019s most iconic reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Pete Hamill is 84,\u2019\u201d he riffed about writing his own profile. \u201c\u2018He\u2019s got stents in his heart\u2019\u2014 I do, I have four. \u2018He\u2019s got two broken hips. He has to go to dialysis three times a week. He\u2019s even got a pacemaker.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018But,\u2019\u201d he added, \u201c\u2018he ain\u2019t done yet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, he and Aoki packed up their Manhattan loft in TriBeCa and headed back to his native Brooklyn to rent in Prospect Heights.<\/p>\n

He told the Times he bought a plot in nearby Green-Wood Cemetery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done the best I could to be the best Pete Hamill I ever could,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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