Won a Grammy in the "Best Album Notes" category for Bob Dylan's
"Blood On the Tracks" (1975)
The premise of his novel "Forever" was inadvertently paralleled by the TV show New Amsterdam (2008).
Eldest of seven children born to Catholic emigrants from Belfast, Anne Devlin and Billy Hamill. His father was a grocery clerk and his mother was a domestic and grocery store worker.
Attended a Jesuit high school.
From his first marriage to Ramona Negron, he has two grown daughters, Adriene (born 1962) and Deirdre (born 1964).