Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and
underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time is dead. His
stepdaughter, Emily Eldridge, said he died on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at
the age of 88 at his Manhattan home of complications from pneumonia.
He captured the 1986 Pulitzer for commentary and the George Polk Award
for metropolitan reporting. More than 20 years earlier, with Gay Talese
and Tom Wolfe, Breslin had helped create "New Journalism" a more
literary approach to news reporting.
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