Celebrating Jimmy Breslin
Monday, December 7th at 7pm
Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South, 4th floor
A host of eminent journalists and writers, convened by Pete Hamill, celebrate the career of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jimmy Breslin. An inimitable New York voice, the city’s “steadiest and most accurate chronicler” (Tom Robbins, The Village Voice, March 19 2002), Breslin was born in Queens, New Yo
rk in October 1929. He started as a copy-boy at the age of fifteen at the Long Island Press and then worked as a reporter covering fires, crime and sports for that paper. In the late 1950s he became a sports columnist at the New York Journal-American and in 1963 he published his first book, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets’ First Year. Breslin wrote his city-side column for the New York Herald-
Tribune from 1963 to 1966. He was at The Daily News from 1976 to 1988 where he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. He then joined Newsday from 1988 until his retirement as a columnist in 2004. Pioneering in style and in focus, his columns were peopled with the prominent, the shady and those struggling with poverty and crime. He also reported from Northern Ireland, Vietnam and other places beyond New York. His first novel, The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, was published in 1970 and was made into a successful film. His most recent book The Good Rat: A True Story was published in 2008. In all, he has published seven novels and ten works of non-fiction.FREE to NYU community: to reserve your ticket, please go to https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7785945. Please bring your NYU ID card and confirmation e-mail with you to the event: actual tickets will not be issued, rather your name will be on a list generated by NYU Ticket Central.
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