Gay Talese
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Gay Talese
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| Born |
February 7, 1932 Ocean City, New Jersey, United States |
| Education | University of Alabama, graduated 1953 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Spouse(s) | Nan Talese (m. 1959) |
| Children | 2 |
Gay Talese (/təˈliːz/; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.
Gay Talese was born into a Catholic Italian-American family in Ocean City, New Jersey, south of Atlantic City. His father, Joseph Talese, was a tailor who had emigrated to the United States during 1922 from Maida, a town in the region of Calabria in southern Italy. His mother, the former Catherine DePaolo, was a buyer for a Brooklyn department store (he is sometimes erroneously identified as being from Brooklyn).
At school as a child, Talese wore hand-crafted suits from his father's shop which, he later speculated in his memoir, Origins of a Nonfiction Writer (1996), caused him to seem older than his classmates. Talese recounted his early years in his book Unto the Sons.
Talese graduated from Ocean City High School during 1949.
Talese has been married to another writer, Nan Talese (a New York editor who manages the Nan A. Talese/Doubleday imprint), for more than 50 years.
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