Pete Hamill

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Pete Hamill (born June 24, 1935 - died August 5, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he was perhaps best known for his career as a New York City journalist, as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and The New York Daily News.