Breslin, Jimmy, - The Good Rat: a true story.

NY, Perennial, (2009). 1st ptg PB. VG PB. Breslin was born in Jamaica, Queens, Oct 17, 1930, and began his newspaper career as a copy boy at the Long Island Press in. 1948. He became a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune in 1963, moving on to the New York Post in 1968. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. IN 1988 he joined Newsday where he is still a frequent contributor despite having officially retired in 2004. IN 1969 he ran for New York City councilman on the same ticket that featured Norman Mailer as the city's mayoral candidate, and in 1977 when serial killer David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, began corresponding with him. Breslin's books include a biography of Damon Runyon, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, several anthologies, and the memoir I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me. He lives in NYC.

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