- 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).
- Brother of novelist-screenwriter Denis Hamill.
- His work has been published in Rolling Stones, Esquire and the New Yorker.
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