![]() ![]() Billy had lost a leg playing football in a Brooklyn park he did various factory jobs when he could find them, while Anne did the same while raising the family.Īt 14 Hamill was admitted to the private Regis high school in Manhattan, founded to provide Jesuit education to poorer Catholic boys. His father, Billy, and mother, Anne (nee Devlin), were immigrants from Belfast who had met in the US. Hamill was born the eldest of seven children in the then-working class Park Slope neighbourhood of Brooklyn. ![]() As he wrote in A Drinking Life, “Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.” His later novels included Forever (2003), about a man granted eternal life provided he never leaves Manhattan, and Tabloid City (2011), a newspaper-thriller set in New York. ![]() A collection of short stories, The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook, was published in 1980, and in 1994 came his most celebrated book, A Drinking Life, which he claimed inspired Frank McCourt to write Angela’s Ashes. ![]()
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