Newspapers
He was the editor of the New York Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, and he ended his career working for the Hearst Corporation. During his tenure as editor, the New York Daily Mirror gained the second highest circulation of any U.S. newspaper. In 1963, nine years after Lait's death, it ceased publication following a strike and was absorbed into the then top-selling paper the New York Daily News.
With Lee Mortimer, Lait wrote New York Confidential, Chicago Confidential and Washington Confidential, which became a 1951 bestseller.
Lait and Mortimer's books inspired the movie New York Confidential (1955), a Challenge Productions/Warner Bros. film directed by Russell Rouse, with a script written by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse. Chicago Confidential (1957), produced by Robert E. Kent Productions/United Artists, was directed by Sidney Salkow from a script written by Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse and Bernard Gordon. The television series, New York Confidential, lasted one season.
Lait died of a circulatory ailment in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 71.
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