Pete Hamill, the self-taught, street-wise newspaper columnist whose love affair with New York inspired a colorful and uniquely influential journalistic career and produced several books of fiction ...

Pete Hamill, a New York-based writer of columns and novels who died Aug. 5, is known in Japan as the author of the original story for “Shiawase no Kiiroi Hankachi” (The yellow handkerchief of ...

It was the author, Pete Hamill, however, that caused me to buy it. I began reading and marveling at Pete Hamill’s writing when he was a columnist for the New York Post. His column when my friend ...