A Writer's Life

2006 book by Gay Talese

0-679-41096-1 (first edition, hardback)OCLC62118423
Dewey Decimal
808.0092 B 22LC ClassPN4874.T216 A3 2006

A Writer's Life is a 2006 autobiography by Gay Talese. The book focuses on many of the stories that Talese attempted to tell, but failed, such as spending six months working on a story about John and Lorena Bobbitt for The New Yorker only to have the piece rejected by New Yorker editor Tina Brown.[1]

Bibliography

  • A Writer's Life. Random House, Inc. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8129-7728-8.

References

  1. ^ Andersen, Kurt. A Reporter's Reporter, The New York Times, April 30, 2006. Retrieved on April 7, 2008.
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Works by Gay Talese
Magazine articles
  • "Joe Louis: The King as a Middle-aged Man"
  • "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"
  • "The Silent Season of a Hero"
  • "Travels with a Diva:On the road with the soprano Marina Poplavskaya"
Non-fiction
  • The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964)
  • The Kingdom and the Power (1969)
  • Fame and Obscurity (1970)
  • Honor Thy Father (1971)
  • Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981)
  • Unto the Sons (1992)
  • Origins of a Nonfiction Writer (1996)
  • A Writer's Life (2006)


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