Gerald Nicosia
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Gerald Nicosia, born November 18, 1949 in Berwyn, Illinois, is a freelance journalist, interviewer, and literary critic. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English and American Literature, with Highest Distinction in English, from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1971 and 1973 respectively.
He has written book reviews for the past 25 years for many major American newspapers including The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times.
Nicosia is probably best known as a biographer of Jack Kerouac due to the biography Memory Babe and the extensive research that he put into it.
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- Memory Babe (Grove Press, 1983, reprint: University of California Press, 1994) ISBN 0-520-08569-8
