Earl Wilson was an American journalist, gossip columnist and author, perhaps best known for his nationally syndicated column, "It Happened Last Night". Wilson's column originated from the New York Post and ran from 1942 until 1983. His chronicling of the Broadway scene during the "Golden Age" of show business formed the basis for a book published in 1971, "The Show Business Nobody Knows". He signed his columns with the tag line, "That's Earl, … Wikipedia
Earl Wilson, who chronicled New York's night life for four decades in a chatty syndicated column that originated in The New York Post, died yesterday at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40717F8395B0C74...
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