Pete Hamill, Journalist and Author Who Captured Spirit of New York, Dies at 85
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaPete Hamill, perhaps the last of a generation of celebrity newspaperman, has died of heart and kidney failure after undergoing emergency surgery for a fractured right hip. He was 85 and had been in failing health for several years.Hamill, in columns, profiles, novels, and memoirs, was hailed for his muscular, energetic prose. His writing pulsated with a kind of gritty energy that reflected the urban milieu in which he was born, raised, and later prospered as a writer for New York City’s tabloids.