James Earle Breslin (1928-10-17)October 17, 1928 New York City, U.S.
Died
March 19, 2017(2017-03-19) (aged 88) New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Reporter
columnist
novelist
screenwriter
playwright
actor
Notable awards
George Polk Award
Pulitzer Prize
Spouse
Rosemary Dattalico
(m. 1954; died 1981)
Ronnie Eldridge
(m. 1982)
Children
6
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James Earle Breslin (October 17, 1928 – March 19, 2017) was an American journalist and author. Until the time of his death, he wrote a column for the New York Daily News Sunday edition.[1][2] He wrote numerous novels, and columns of his appeared regularly in various newspapers in his hometown of New York City. He served as a regular columnist for the Long Island newspaper Newsday[3] until his retirement on November 2, 2004, though he still published occasional pieces for the paper until his death.
He was known for his newspaper columns that became the brash embodiment of the street-smart New Yorker, chronicling wise guys and big-city power brokers but always offered a sympathetic viewpoint of the white working-class people of New York City,[4] and was awarded the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens."[5][6]
^Feuer, Alan (September 27, 2015). "The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era's End". The New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
^Current Biography 1942, pp. 648–51: "Patterson, Joseph Medill"
^Arango, Tim; Pérez-Peña, Richard (March 21, 2008). "3 Moguls in Talks to Buy Newsday". The New York Times.
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^"The 1986 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Commentary". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
^"New York columnist Jimmy Breslin remembered as the champion of ordinary citizens". thestar.com. March 25, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
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daily newspaper The Nassau Daily Review-Star working for JimmyBreslin. He would later follow Breslin to the Long Island Press and New York Herald Tribune...
exciting things being done in the old reporting genre by Talese, Wolfe and JimmyBreslin. He never wrote the piece, so far as I know, but I began using the expression...
Smut. It focused on his legal troubles. Larry Flynt, Ron Jeremy, and JimmyBreslin appeared in the movie. He claimed to have had 7,000 sexual partners...
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he co-produced and co-directed Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists," a documentary about the columnists JimmyBreslin and Pete Hamill, which received...
New York, Duke Phillips founds one exclusively for her, staffed by JimmyBreslin, Sean Young, and Prince Charles. A fifth tagline for the closing credits...
org/37/breslin.htm "His book has been criticized for its intemperate remarks about the Irish and their American great-grandchildren, but if JimmyBreslin is...
addressing supporters in the hotel's main ballroom. Authors George Plimpton, JimmyBreslin, Pete Hamill, former professional football player Rosey Grier, and 1960...
journalist in the mid-1960s, alongside other writers like Tom Wolfe, JimmyBreslin, and Robert Benton, she contributed to the New York Herald Tribune's...
Damon Runyon Award to a prominent journalist. Past winners include JimmyBreslin, Mike Royko, George Will and Bob Costas. Damon Runyon Elementary school...
author. His clients included Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Howard Fast, JimmyBreslin, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Lord was born in Burlington, Iowa, on September...
Year Title Notes 1986 Saturday Night Live 11.17 "JimmyBreslin and Marvin Hagler/Level 42/E.G. Daily"; 11.18 "Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin/George...
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