Fame and Obscurity

Fame and Obscurity

Author	Gay Talese
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Biographies
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1970
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Fame and Obscurity: A Book About New York, a Bridge, and Celebrities on the Edge was a 1970 book by Gay Talese. The book was a collection of many of Talese's works for Esquire about New York City, and also includes his most famous celebrity profiles: "Joe Louis: The King as a Middle-aged Man", "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" and "The Silent Season of a Hero".

Works by Gay Talese

Magazine articles	"Joe Louis: The King as a Middle-aged Man" "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" "The Silent Season of a Hero" "Travels with a Diva:On the road with the soprano Marina Poplavskaya"

Non-fiction	The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964) The Kingdom and the Power (1969) Fame and Obscurity (1970) Honor Thy Father (1971) Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981) Unto the Sons (1992) Origins of a Nonfiction Writer (1996) A Writer's Life (2006)

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