Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin (b. 1928) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has, for more than fifty years, been among the most prominent columnists in the United States. Born in Queens, New York, Breslin has worked in New York City newsrooms since the 1940s. He has been a columnist since 1963, when he won national attention by covering John F. Kennedy's assassination from the emergency room in the Dallas Hospital and, later, from the point of view of the President's gravedigger at Arlington Cemetery....See more
Jimmy Breslin (b. 1928) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has, for more than fifty years, been among the most prominent columnists in the United States. Born in Queens, New York, Breslin has worked in New York City newsrooms since the 1940s. He has been a columnist since 1963, when he won national attention by covering John F. Kennedy's assassination from the emergency room in the Dallas Hospital and, later, from the point of view of the President's gravedigger at Arlington Cemetery. He has run for citywide office on a secessionist platform, befriended and been beaten up by mobsters, and received letters from the Son of Sam during the serial killer's infamous 1977 spree. Known as one of the best-informed journalists in the city, Breslin's years of insightful reporting won him a Pulitzer in 1986, awarded for "columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens." Although he stopped writing his weekly column for "Newsday" in 2004, Breslin still writes books, having produced nearly two dozen to date. He lives in Manhattan and continues to write. See less
