"He built and nurtured an image over the years as pugnacious, streetwise and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife during a drunken party.
He had nine children, made a quixotic bid to become Mayor of New York, produced five forgettable films, dabbled in Journalism, flew gliders, challenged professional boxers, was banned from a Manhattam Young Women's Hebrew Association for reciting obscene poetry, feuded with writer Gore Vidal and crusaded against women's liberation."I would have thought it takes more than a few life times to do all these things !!
But, the best epitaph he could have was in Guardian (reproduced in the Hindu) :
The man whose greatest books consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to storytelling as invention. His books were a nightmare for any librarian hoping to neatly classify them as fiction or non-fiction.What would I like to be written on my epitaph ?
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