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Jimmy Breslin. 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.
March 19, 2017. Jimmy Breslin, the New York City newspaper columnist and best-selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick-hard words and a ...
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Mar 21, 2017 · Breslin’s roots lay in the working-class neighbourhoods of New York City’s outer borough, Queens. His father, James, was an alcoholic musician who walked out on the family, leaving Jimmy’s ...
Mar 14, 2024 · A journalistic trailblazer in form as well as content, Breslin wrote of many subjects that could broadly be defined as “Catholic,” from the nuns who taught him at St. Benedict Joseph Labre...
Outraged by the sex-abuse scandals that emerged concerning the Catholic Church, Breslin, a life-long Roman Catholic, severed his ties to the church because he could not reconcile his faith with the efforts of the Catholic hierarchy to cover up repeated scandals.
Apr 30, 2024 · Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1928, Queens, New York, U.S.—died March 19, 2017, Manhattan) was an American columnist and novelist who became known as a tough-talking voice of his native Queens, a working-class New York City borough, during his long newspaper career. Breslin started as a copyboy, then established himself as a sportswriter.
Mar 22, 2017 · Chasing the story was Jimmy Breslin’s reason for being. Joseph McAuley March 22, 2017. Jimmy Breslin in his New York City apartment in 2004. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File) Amid a crush of urgent ...
