Pete Hamill began his writing career as a night-side reporter for the "New York Post" in 1960. He has written columns for a number of newspapers in New York, including the "Daily News", the "Village Voice", and "New York Newsday". The author of several novels and short stories, Hamill is a lifetime New Yorker.
A good story, if somewhat slow-moving. The descriptions of Depression-era New York were so vivid, I really felt as though I was present in that time and place.