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Pete Hamill

Hamill’s Snow In
August Honored

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2002

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Pete Hamill's 1997 novel Snow in August has been selected by Governor Bill Owens as the focus, for Colorado's "One Book, One State" program. The program grew out of the "One Book, One City" concept which originated in Seattle four years ago with the idea of getting residents to collectively read the same book in order to promote discussion about any issues the book might bring … [Read more...] about Hamill’s Snow In
August Honored

Pete Hamill: New Yorker

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April / May 2002

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Since September 11, Pete Hamill has devoted many columns to trying to make sense of what happened, if that is possible, or trying to analyze the reaction and process of healing of New Yorkers. Hamill has been part of New York's newspaper scene since 1960 when he started as a reporter for The New York Post. His award-winning journalistic career has involved writing columns for … [Read more...] about Pete Hamill: New Yorker

The Bearing of the Green

By Pete Hamill, Contributor
October / November 2000

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Some thoughts on being Irish-American. As a proud Irish-American, I begin with a simple assumption: there is no way to precisely define that elusive, complex human category called the Irish-American. The tools of sociology are as inadequate to the task as the forms of the Census Bureau, and the jeweler's art of the lexicographer can't come close to an answer. This should … [Read more...] about The Bearing of the Green

Our Jack

By Pete Hamill, Contributor

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Pete Hamill writes on JFK Somewhere in the shadowy land between myth and history lies the domicile of John F. Kennedy. The first United States president of Irish-Catholic descent, Kennedy was a man of many faces: war hero, orator, lover, creator, and visionary. He had it all, and it was all taken away, but in the end he gained immortality. That day I was in Ireland, in the … [Read more...] about Our Jack

Memoir of an Irish Childhood

By Pete Hamill

September October 1996

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Author and raconteur Frank McCourt, in his autobiography, has "examined his ferocious childhood, walked around it, relived it, and with skill and care and generosity of heart, transformed it into a triumphant work of art," writes Pete Hamill.   Frank McCourt has written a triumphant book. His memoir of an Irish childhood is in turns hilarious, heart-scalding, bitterly angry. … [Read more...] about Memoir of an Irish Childhood