Hamill, Pete (24 June 1935–5 August 2020), newspaper columnist and author, was born William Peter Hamill, Jr. in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of seven children of Irish Catholic immigrants from Belfast. His father, Billy Hamill, a member of the Sein Féin insurgency, immigrated in ...
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Hamill, Pete (24 June 1935–5 August 2020), newspaper columnist and author
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Ross, Lillian (8 June 1918–20 Sept. 2017), journalist and author
Alan Deutschman
Ross, Lillian (8 June 1918–20 Sept. 2017), journalist and author, was born Lillian Rosovsky in Syracuse, New York, the third of four children to Russian-Jewish immigrants Louis Rosovsky, a garage owner, and his wife Edith Rosovsky. When Lillian was in junior high school, the family moved to New York City, settling in Brooklyn. Inspired by a school trip to the ...
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Vidal, Gore (3 October 1925–31 July 2012)
Carl Van Vechten
Portrait of Gore Vidal, 1948, Van Vechten, Carl, 1880–1964, photographer
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, [LC-USZ62-94219]
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Vidal, Gore (3 Oct. 1925–31 July 2012), novelist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and cultural provocateur
Ira Bruce Nadel
Vidal, Gore (3 Oct. 1925–31 July 2012), novelist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and cultural provocateur, was born Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr. at the Cadet Hospital at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. He was the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal, an All-American football player and pilot who was then a flying instructor and assistant football coach at West Point, and Nina Kay Gore, a socialite and the daughter of ...
