Title

A drinking life : a memoir

Description

Hamill, a journalist and author from Brooklyn, reflects on how drinking influenced the first half of his life.

Identifier

955771

316341088

Creator

Hamill, Pete

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1994

Program air date: May 29, 1994

Publisher

Little, Brown

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Kennedy shot-Belfast. Hemingway suicide. Post series ruined Walter Winchell. How do you remember all of this? Underlinings/notes: Underlinings: Hamill's background, early life/education/family, discovery of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, his thoughts on drinking, Castro, Eisenhower, becoming a writer, Norman Mailer, relationship with daughters.. Notes: "Comics," "Rosenbergs," "Kefauver hearings," "Goodbye to Jenny," "Drinking life," "Navy," "1957 Jack Kerouac," "newspapers, Post," "Ramona married 1962," "Post column 1965," "Vietnam," "Shirley MacLaine."

Subject

"Hamill, Pete, 1935-"

"Authors, American--20th century--Biography."

"Irish Americans--Social life and customs."

"Journalists--United States--Biography."

"Alcoholics--United States--Biography."

"Drinking customs--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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