Gay Talese

'The Silent Season of a Hero'

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Author of Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbor's Wife, Unto the Sons, A Writer's Life and The Silent Season of a Hero, among others; former reporter for the New York Times, he's also written for Esquire, the New Yorker, Harper's magazine, and other national publications

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