Sugar blues di william dufty biography

On June 28, 2002, William Dufty passed away in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 86.

Beginning his life in Michigan in 1916, Dufty launched his fame with a talent for the piano and broadcasting his own radio show before the age of 12.

After attending Wayne University, Dufty worked as a columnist, speechwriter, and radio producer. In 1942, he was drafted and spent four years in service in Europe and North Africa.

Charismatic and ever charming, Dufty later worked as a free-lance writer for The New York Post, eventually receiving the George Polk award in 1955 for Metropolitan Reporting, and the Newspaper Guild Page One Award.

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Born the son of a banker near Grand Rapids, Mich., Dufty learned to play piano by ear and as a child had his own radio show.

There's a wonderful story at the start of William Dufty's bestselling book 'Sugar Blues', where he describes his first encounter with the biggest Hollywood.

"He was from a period where the press had real access, reporters were reporters, not media celebrities and he was a great newspaperman in the old mold... A few hours with William Dufty and you never forgot him," comments a creator of the East West Journal.

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In the mid 1950s, Dufty worked with his friend, jazz singer Billie Holiday, t