Jimmy Breslin biography

Synopsis

Jimmy Breslin was born October 17 1930 in Queens, New York, USA. Starting as a sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, he evolved into a self-described ‘street reporter’. His columns, for a sequence of New York papers, offered vignettes, character sketches, and commentary, in a scrappy, colloquial style. Also a novelist, he won a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Profile

Journalist, born in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, USA. Starting as a sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, he evolved into a self-described ‘street reporter’. His columns, for a sequence of New York papers, offered vignettes, character sketches, and commentary, in a scrappy, colloquial style. Also a novelist, he won a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Recent works include 2002’s I Don’t Want to Go to Jail: A Novel and 2004’s The Church That Forgot Christ. He also wrote a memoir in 1997, I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me.