“I come from the white working class, but I was
fortunate. I had parents that thought things would be better tomorrow or the
day after tomorrow and the way out of poverty was through the library. My
mother got me a library card when I was five. I couldn't read yet, and there
were mothers like that all over New York.”—Irish-American
columnist-novelist-memoirist Pete Hamill, quoted in Richard Turner, “Weekend
Confidential: Pete Hamill—A Lifetime of Big Stories, Revisited,” The Wall
Street Journal, Jan. 19-20, 2019
(Photo of Pete
Hamill taken in Brooklyn in September 2007 by David Shankbone.)
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