Gay Talese (/təˈliːz/; born February 7, 1932) is an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, he helped to define literary journalism. His most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.
Gay Talese was born into a Roman Catholic Italian-American family in Ocean City, New Jersey, located just south of Atlantic City. His father, Joseph Talese, was a tailor who had immigrated to the United States in 1922 from Maida, a town in the province of Catanzaro in southern Italy. His mother, the former Catherine DePaolo, was a buyer for a Brooklyn department store (he is sometimes erroneously identified as being from Brooklyn).
At school as a child, he wore hand crafted suits from his father's shop which, he later reflected in his memoir Origins of a Nonfiction Writer (1996), caused him to appear to be older than his classmates. He recounted his early years in his book Unto the Sons.
Seems like the end is coming
Seems like the signs are lining up
As far as I can see
We're closer now than ever
This pain won't last forever
Love love is on His way
So stand up the time is now to lift up your head
Chorus:
Raise your hands if you're with me
Raise your hands if your ready
Say hey! hey! I'm not afraid
Hey! hey! hey! If it ends today
There's hope on our horizon
Let it be the sound that's rising up
It's rising up
We could be the generation
To shout out to every nation
Love love is on His way
Chorus
Get ready, are you ready? (I'm ready!) get ready
Raise your hands if you're with me
Raise your hands come on and say
Hey! hey! I'm not afraid