Books written by Gay Talese

The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening of this marvel of human ingenuity and engineering, he chronicled the human drama of its completion-from the ...
Unto the Sons

"An Italian ROOTS." —The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the ...
Unto the Sons

An immigrant saga reminiscent of Roots begins in a small Italian village and spans three generations and two world wars to capture the essence of the Italian-American experience. 300,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. Tour.
High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese

From the long-form Esquire articles that germinated into his masterful books--including Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor's Wife--to indelible portraits like the canonical "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" and the recent, revealing account of ...
The Voyeur's Motel

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in ...
High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese

From the article that germinated into Thy Neighbor's Wife, to indelible portraits of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Lady Gaga, High Notes selects the highlights of Talese’s signature mode, “the art of hanging out.” It’s a bold ...
The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

Praise for The Kingdom and the Power “I know of no book about a great institution which is so detailed, so intensely personalized, or so dramatized as this volume about The New York Times.”—The Christian Science Monitor “A serious ...
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays

Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism, who transformed traditional reportage with his vivid scene-setting, sharp observation and rich storytelling.
A Writer's Life

So it was at Appomattox . So it was last week in Selma , Alabama . ” It seemed to me that President Johnson's reference to Appomattox , Virginia , was an overly optimistic comparison to the situation in Selma ; at Appomattox the ...
The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters

The essays and profiles collected in The Gay Talese Reader are works of art, each carefully crafted to create a portrait of an unforgettable individual, place or moment.
Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality

Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality
Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Gay Talese's crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful fact with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism.
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays

Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism, who transformed traditional reportage with his vivid scene-setting, sharp observation and rich storytelling. His 1966 piece for Esquire, one of the...
Thy Neighbor's Wife

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with...
Fame and Obscurity

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese

Chronicles the writing of the legendary sports journalist, from his first high school job, to becoming the sports reporter for the New York Times, including his pieces on Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali's visit to Fidel Castro and never-before ...
The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

Praise for The Kingdom and the Power “I know of no book about a great institution which is so detailed, so intensely personalized, or so dramatized as this volume about The New York Times.”—The Christian Science Monitor “A serious ...
The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Follows the construction of the longest suspension bridge in the United States, the two-and-a-half mile-long Verrazano-Narrows Bridge which connects the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Fame and Obscurity

Johnny Delgado Delgado walks like Sinatra , has Sinatra's build , and from certain facial angles does resemble Sinatra . But he seems a rather shy individual . Fifteen years ago , early in his career , Delgado applied for a role in From ...
The Kingdom and the Power

With drama and riveting detail, the author of Unto the Sons presents a candidly fascinating look at the making of the remarkable publishing dynasty that is The New York Times--all the history behind the headlines.