# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gay-talese
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:17:06.121Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gay-talese"
name: "Gay Talese"
slug: "gay-talese"
description: "Gaetano \"Gay\" Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra."
tagline: "American writer (born 1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gay_Talese_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.62410986775178
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848044/"
    handle:    "nm0848044"
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    url:       "http://www.gaytalese.com"
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    title: "Gay Talese"
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    title: "Gay Talese"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump