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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Gay Talese
Born: February 7, 1932 (age 93)
Bio: Gay Talese is an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
Known for:
- The Voyeur's Motel (2016)
- Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981)
- Honor Thy Father (1971)
- Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (2011)
- Unto the Sons (1992)
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