births
February 7, 1932
Gay Talese, American journalist and memoirist
Gay Talese
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.
February 7
February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 327 days remain until the end of the year.