80, from urosepsis in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Published works A Middle Class Education. 1961. The Hack. 1963. Square's Progress. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. Office Politics. 1966. The Blacking Factory. 1968. Max Jamison. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. The Morning After: Selected essays and reviews. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. . People Will Always Be Kind. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. . Three Mobs: Labor, church, and Mafia. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1974. . Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs. Orion Publishing Group. 1975. The Good Word & Other Words. New York: Dutton, 1978. . Transatlantic Blues New York: Dutton, 1978. . Clare Boothe Luce. New York: Dutton, 1982. . Frank and Maisie: A memoir with parents. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. . The Boys of Winter: A novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. . Essays in Disguise. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. . Baseball and Lesser Sports. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. . My Life as a Fan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. . In Love with Daylight: A memoir of recovery. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. . The House that George Built with a little help from Irving, Cole and a Crew of about Fifty. New York: Random House, 2007 . Further reading Frank Sheed (1974), The Church and I, Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Maisie Ward (1963), Unfinished Business, New York: Sheed & Ward. Maisie Ward (1973), To and Fro on the Earth: A Sequel to an Autobiography, New York: Sheed & Ward. Awards and honours 1967 finalist, National Book Award for Fiction, for his novel Office Politics 1987 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for his liner notes for The Voice – The Columbia Years 1943–1952, performed by Frank Sinatra. References External links Writer's Almanac Seattle Public Library's online catalog 1930 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford American male novelists British emigrants to the United States English essayists English Roman Catholics Grammy Award winners Writers from London People educated at Downside School American male essayists English male novelists 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers English male non-fiction writers