Bio
WHAT'S DOING?
REBEL FALLS was released in May from Three Hills/Cornell University Press and I did presentations at 30-plus bookstores and the Miami Book Fair in support of it.
Novelist Mary Kay Zuravleff calls the book "vivid and surprising," while poet E. Ethelbert Miller says "women play a prominent role in saving our nation from itself," and novelist Burt Solomon adds it's "well-written, smartly paced, and pleasurable to read."
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. In addition, the novels have been optioned as a possible limited series for Netflix or Amazon Prime.
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 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, 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 and a longtime contributor to the USA Today editorial page.
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, Europe and throughout North America, with a notebook in hand.