Paddy whacked by tj english7/4/2023 In 1995, English published Born to Kill, about a Vietnamese gang based in New York City's Chinatown. The Westies operated primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, though the roots of the gang go all the way back to the Prohibition Era. His first book, The Westies: Inside The Hell's Kitchen Irish Mob (1990), is a best-selling account of an Irish American gang in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Of driving a taxi English has said, "I think of it as a metaphor for what I do as a writer." Works In 1981, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a writer, working in a series of odd jobs including bartender, janitor, and most notably, taxi driver for three years, while working as a freelance journalist. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 1980, English worked as a high school teacher in East Los Angeles. His father was a steelworker and his mother a social worker for Catholic Charities. English was born in Tacoma, Washington and grew up in an Irish Catholic family of ten children. JSTOR ( March 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.
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