^Bell، Bill (30 أبريل 1999). "Long Live the Duke". نيويورك ديلي نيوز. New York City. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2007-08-11. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2011-03-14. He was born in Phillipsburg, N.J., where his father was a mill worker and his mother a waitress. He majored in journalism at New York University, and except for a brief flirtation with the Episcopal priesthood as a seminarian at the New York General Theological Seminary, he has worked as a writer and editor for about 25 years.