Gent, Peter

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Name (Latin)
Gent, Peter
Other forms of name
Gent, George Davis Peter
Gent, Pete
Date of birth
1942-08-23
Date of death
2011-09-30
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 55509472
Wikidata: Q7174201
Library of congress: n 82221729
Sources of Information
  • His North Dallas forty, 1973.
  • New York times WWW site, Oct. 3, 2011(in obituary published Oct. 2: Peter Gent; George Davis Peter Gent, known as Pete in his playing days; b. Aug. 23, 1942, Bangor, Mich.; d. there Friday [Sept. 30, 2011], aged 69; receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the 1960s whose best-selling novel North Dallas forty portrayed professional football as a dehumanizing business that drove pain-racked players to drug and alcohol abuse)
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Wikipedia description:

George Davis Peter Gent ( JENT; August 23, 1942 – September 30, 2011) was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He became a novelist after his retirement, authoring the best-seller North Dallas Forty. He played college basketball at Michigan State University.

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