By the fall of 1963 he was a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, stationed in Europe. The 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike led Hamill to start writing magazine articles. Hamill began to work as a reporter for the New York Post in 1960. Hamill lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Fukiko Aoki. Hamill has two daughters named Adriene and Deirdre. His other siblings are Joe (deceased), Brian, and Kathleen.

Denis writes for the New York Daily News. His brothers Denis and John Hamill are also writers. He was one of four men who disarmed Sirhan Sirhan of his gun in the aftermath of the Robert F. Kennedy, Hamill helped persuade the senator to run for the United States presidency, then worked for the campaign and covered it as a journalist. Hamill has also lived in Spain, Ireland, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Rome, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.Ī friend of Robert F. After his discharge, in 1956-57, he was a student at Mexico City College on the G.I. In the fall of 1952, he enlisted in the U.S. Hamill attended night classes at the School of Visual Arts (then called the Cartoonists and Illustrators School), with the goal of becoming a painter. Inspired especially by the work of Milton Caniff, he was set on becoming a comic book artist. In 1949, Hamill attended the prestigious Regis High School in Manhattan, but left school when he was 15 to work as an apprentice sheet metal worker in the Brooklyn Navy Yard 59 years later, in June 2010, Regis awarded him an honorary diploma. Hamill attended Holy Name of Jesus grammar school and delivered the Brooklyn Daily Eagle when he was 11. Anne Hamill was employed in Wanamaker's department store, and also worked as a domestic, a nurses' aide, and a cashier in the RKO movie chain.

Billy Hamill had jobs as a grocery clerk, in a war plant, and later in a factory producing lighting fixtures.

Billy Hamill met Anne Devlin in 1933 and they married the following year. Hamill’s mother, Anne Devlin, a high school graduate in Belfast, arrived in New York on the day the stock market crashed in 1929. His father, Billy Hamill, lost a leg as the result of an injury in a semi-pro soccer game in Brooklyn. The eldest of seven children of Catholic immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Pete Hamill was born in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn.

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