Bio
WHAT'S DOING?
REBEL FALLS won the W.Y. Boyd Award from the American Library Association.
Ken Burns calls the story "strong, emotional, and driven by one of his best characters yet, a heroine with more than her share of grit and bravery." SiriusXM host and novelist Larry Kirwan says the novel is a "page-turning, entertaining melange of history and fiction with an unmistakable ring of truth."
RECENT PAST
ESCAPE FROM CASTRO'S CUBA, the sequel to CASTRO'S CURVEBALL, was a finalist for the CASEY Award and the Indie Book Award. Meanwhile, Sam Pollard has agreed to direct a documentary of SUMMER OF '68: WHEN BASEBALL CHANGED BASEBALL, AND AMERICA, FOREVER.
WHAT'S THE BACKSTORY?
A longtime writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, I've published 16 books, including the award-winning CANCER CROSSINGS and SUMMER OF '68. My stories and/or columns have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, National Geographic, Psychology Today, GQ and Esquire. Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss calls my work "a winning mix of science, biography and mythology."
WHAT ELSE?
I've received JHU's Teaching Excellence Award three times and the Professional Achievement Award three times. I'm one of the founders of Baseball Weekly. Raised in Lockport, N.Y., one of my first jobs was writing music reviews for the Buffalo Courier-Express. Since then I've traveled to Cuba, Brazil, Nepal, Japan, China, Ghana, and throughout Europe and North America.