Author and veteran newspaperman Pete Hamill has battled a variety of health ailments over the past two years — but is expected to be well enough to attend the Irish American Writers and Artists ceremony at the Manhattan Club on Oct. 20 — where he is to receive the group's Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award .
Hamill, 79, was hospitalized at the end of 2012 with a perforated ulcer but was well enough to head to Dublin to recuperate and write in the summer of 2013.
But when he returned to New York more tough times befell him as he was hospitalized for two months with kidney problems — and later broke both hips while in the hospital.
Hamill tells Media Ink he is slowly getting better and writing again — and that he definitely plans to make the scene next Monday.
"Yes, I'll be there, as Hank Williams, Jr., says "The Good Lord's Willin' (And The Creeks Don't Rise)," he wrote in an e-mail.
"My legs are getting better, thanks to a noble wife, a very good physical therapist, and a platoon of superb doctors from NYU Langone. But I'm still not walking, so I will do no tap-dancing."
On the book front, he said, "Last week I sent 92 pages of my new novel (untitled), which was interrupted when I got sick. I'm working on several other things, too. And reading, too. The worst of all this might indeed be in the rear view mirror."
We can only hope so. Aside from his career as a columnist for The Post, the Daily News and Newsday, his best-selling memoir, "A Drinking Life," and a slew of novels, Hamill remains the only person to have ever been the editor-in-chief of the Daily News and The Post.
Hamill also covered wars in Vietnam, Lebanon, Nicaragua and Northern Ireland. For further info, go to iamwa.com
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