A Writer's Life

A Writer's Life  
Author(s) Gay Talese
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Autobiography
Genre(s) Non-fiction
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date 2006
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 448 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-679-41096-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC Number 62118423
Dewey Decimal 808.0092 B 22
LC Classification PN4874.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]

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Liu Ailing

References

  1. ^ Andersen, Kurt. A Reporter's Reporter, The New York Times, April 30, 2006. Retrieved on April 7, 2008.
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)