Grace Anselmo D'Amato

As the wife for 46 years of 500 Club manager Emil ''Willie'' D'Amato, Grace D'Amato heard numerous star-studded stories and experienced firsthand the glamour and life that Paul ''Skinny'' D'Amato's renowned nightclub brought to Atlantic City and the nation. People like Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were D'Amato household names; Frank Sinatra was a family friend. Grace D'Amato's book is the result of an attentiveness to these events and years of research about Atlantic City history. Grace worked as an editor and freelance writer and lives in Margate, New Jersey, where she is at work on her second book.