Nicholas P Tosches was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet.
11 Facts About Nick Tosches
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Nick Tosches's grandfather emigrated from Italy to New York City in the late 19th century.
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Nick Tosches's grandparents were Arbereshe from Casalvecchio di Puglia in Apulia.
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Nick Tosches did not attend college but was published for the first time in Fusion magazine at 19 years old.
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Nick Tosches held a variety of jobs, including working as a porter for his family's business in New Jersey, as a paste-up artist for the Lovable underwear company in New York City, and later, in the early 1970s, as a snake hunter for the Miami Serpentarium, in Florida.
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Nick Tosches worked as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine.
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Nick Tosches's work was published in Esquire and Open City.
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Nick Tosches published five novels, Cut Numbers, Trinities, In the Hand of Dante, Me and the Devil, and Under Tiberius ; and a collection of poetry, Chaldea and I Dig Girls.
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Nick Tosches worked on Never Trust a Loving God, a book he did in collaboration with his friend the French painter Thierry Alonso Gravleur.
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Nick Tosches was featured on the Travel Channel show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in the episode "Disappearing Manhattan", in which he and Bourdain shared a drink at Sophie's in the East Village, a Manhattan dive bar, and discussed the changing nature of the city.
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Nick Tosches died on October 20,2019, at his home in Manhattan, three days before his 70th birthday.