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978-0-307-26630-9. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, is a 2009 best-selling non-fiction book written by the American author and journalist Christopher McDougall. The book has sold over three million copies.
Born. 1962 (age 61–62) Occupation. Non-fiction author. Christopher McDougall (born 1962) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for his 2009 book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. [1] He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's Journal ...
Micah True (November 10, 1953 – March 27, 2012), born Michael Randall Hickman and also known as Caballo Blanco (white horse), was an American ultrarunner from Boulder, Colorado, who received attention because of his depiction as a central character in Christopher McDougall 's book Born to Run. [3][4] True's inclusion in the book garnered him ...
Born to Run (autobiography), a 2016 book by Bruce Springsteen. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, a 2009 book about the Tarahumara Indians by Christopher McDougall. Born to Run, a 2008 novel by James Grippando. Born to Run, a 2007 novel by Michael Morpurgo.
The practice saw a surge in popularity after the 2009 publication of Christopher McDougall's book, Born to Run, promoting the practice. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the United States , the Barefoot Runners Society was founded in November 2009 as a national club for unshod runners and grew quickly.
Ann Trason (born August 30, 1960) is an American ultramarathon runner from Auburn, California. [1] She set 20 world records during her career. Her world record of 5:40:18 at the 50 mile distance, set in 1991, was unbeaten until 2015. As of her induction into the Ultrarunning Hall of Fame in 2020, she was considered by many to be the most ...
Daniel E. Lieberman (born June 3, 1964) is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head [1] and the human body. [2]
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other subjects ...