Opinion: nprscottsimon remembers Pete Hamill, former columnist for the New York Post and Daily News, whose memoir 'A Drinking Life' told tough truths. Hamill died this week — clean, sober, and beloved — at 85.
Author Pete Hamill attends the Tribeca & ESPN Present the premiere Of"Muhammad And Larry" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on October 19, 2009 in New York City.Author Pete Hamill attends the Tribeca & ESPN Present the premiere Of"Muhammad And Larry" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on October 19, 2009 in New York City.
But those years in the 1960s and early '70s in which Pete Hamill was making his name and telling stories from neighborhoods the more polite and laureled New York newspapers often overlooked, he also spent too many hours on a bar stool in the kind of places tabloids called"watering holes;" and with glitterati literati; and not enough time with his children.
Pete Hamill left high school when he was fifteen, which is when he began to drink. But in sobriety he discovered, as he put it,"I had gained the time I once spent drinking and the time I needed for recovery. And I began writing as never before.", which is tough, telling, unrelenting—and true.
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