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Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies at age of 87

Written By Unknown on Sunday, March 19, 2017 | 11:58 AM

The Pulitzer prize-winning author-columnist was the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker

The author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, a Pulitzer prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker, died on Sunday. He was 87.

Breslin died at his Manhattan home of complications from pneumonia, his stepdaughter, Emily Eldridge, said.

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