The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay TaleseOne of America's most acclaimed writers and journalists, Gay Talese has been fascinated by sports throughout his life. At age fifteen he became a sports reporter for his Ocean City High School newspaper; four years later, as sports editor of the University of Alabama's Crimson White, he began to employ devices more common in fiction, such as establishing a "scene" with minute details a technique that would later make him famous. Later, as a sports