Authors on the Web
Air Force Times, September 26, 2009
...white, half were black. The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reflected a changing world. Despite the subtitle of David Maraniss? new nonfiction book, ?Rome 1960,? it?s hyperbolic to say the Games... The most fascinating chapter in ?War Journal: My...
Denver Post, July 19, 2009
...Other contributors are David Kaczynski, brother of the convicted Unabomber; novelist Richard Ford; humorist David Sedaris; and journalist/biographer David Maraniss. The anthology will quite likely appeal to readers in their parental roles, to women with...
Lowell Sun, June 29, 2009
...football in this instance, can corrupt the educational process. I was surprised not to see anything anywhere by David Maraniss, among the finest wordsmiths among current nonfiction writers, who in the sports genre has written profoundly about Vince...
New York Times, June 28, 2009
...by the star. The biographer broadens the story in ways that may upset the star or his family. David Maraniss, the author of biographies of Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi and Roberto Clemente, said he would never collaborate on an autobiography that he...
Examiner.com, June 15, 2009
...at two iconic coaches and a different generation. When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss From the publisher: More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American...
Blogcritics.org, May 29, 2009
...a legend, but I didn't really know why. That's why I turned to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss' Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. I don't know who let who down, but at the end of the book, I found myself......
Honolulu Star Bulletin, January 11, 2009
...all over the world, perhaps because the book includes contributions from Academy Award-winner Cameron Crowe and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss. It also includes maps of Obama sites and rare photos, like the one above, never before published. Its...
Cookeville Herald-Citizen, December 7, 2008
...Mellon Tytell, ?The Wordy Shipmates? by Sarah Vowell, ?America America? by Ethan Canin, ?Williams-Sonoma Christmas,? ?Rome 1960? by David Maraniss, ?The Middle Place? by Kaelly Corrigan, ?Kushiel?s Mercy? by Jacqueline Carey,...
Dan Shanoff, May 7, 2009
...is a ton more in there, including 28 brackets specifically dedicated to sports, prepared by the likes of David Maraniss (Olympic Athletes), Pete Thamel (Absurd College Nicknames), Stefan Fatsis (Field Goals and PATs), Advertising Icons (Bryan Curtis) and...
Hell On Frisco Bay, April 13, 2009
...up outside of Pittsburgh and thus a Pirates fan. The lore was later enhanced with research provided by David Maraniss ' excellent biography Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero , a book I learned about again from Zirin . Whereas,...
Out Of Left Field, April 3, 2009
...portrait. Walsh's life is barely mentioned, which is a stark contrast to the definite NFL coach bio, David Maraniss ' Vince Lombardi bio, When Pride Mattered . (A key difference there was Maraniss was writing about someone long after he was dead; Harris...
NoTitles: still thinking, March 18, 2009
...a newsroom, and therefore have learned tons from reporters like Anne Hull, David Finkel, Rick Bragg, Jim Sheeler, David Maraniss, Madeline Blais, Wil Haygood. Just this afternoon I read a piece by Gene Weingarten in the Washington Post, about parents...
My Sydney Paris Life, February 2, 2009
...estimate was that the proportion of mixed-race children is now one in six. The UK article also quotes David Maraniss of the Washington Post , writing of Obama’s Hawaii experience, “the notion of Hawaii … the spirit of aloha, the transracial if not...




















