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Smith has received many awards and honors for his work at Sports Illustrated. He won the National Magazine Award for non-fiction, the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, a record four times and was a finalist for the award a record ten times. [2] [5] His stories have appeared in The Best American Sports Writing series a record 12 times. [3]
The Best American Sports Writing was a yearly anthology of magazine articles on the subject of sports published in the United States. It started in 1991 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin and ceased publication in 2020.
Anderson moved to The New York Times in 1966 and was given a regular column there in 1971. [1] [6] In 1972, he won the E.P. Dutton Award for the best sports feature story of the year, the return of the heavyweight champion Joe Frazier to his Beaufort, South Carolina hometown (he won a Page One Award for the same story). [3]
In 1985, he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time, although he maintained a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine. [8] [9] Larry King called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins wrote numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated.
He is best known for his writing on sports and food. His sports journalism was included in The Best American Sports Writing, in 1998. [2] He won a James Beard Foundation Award, in 1997, in the "Newspaper Feature Writing without Recipes" category. [3] Powell has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Slate, and Mother Jones.
Cited as an influence by countless sports journalists, [5] [10] [11] Murray was a fixture at the L.A. Times for 37 years. After he won the Pulitzer in 1990, Murray modestly said he thought the prize winner should have had "to bring down a government or expose major graft or give advice to prime ministers.
He covered sports in New York for the New York Sun from 1915 to 1943 and for the New York Journal-American from 1945 to 1965. He was also a successful author, writing biographies of politician Al Smith and athletes Lou Gehrig and John McGraw, as well as histories of the New York Yankees, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Graham's writing ...
Pat Jordan (born April 22, 1941) is an American sports writer. His work has been included in the Best American Sports Writing anthology series seven times. [1] He is also the author of A False Spring, a bittersweet memoir about his minor league baseball career, which is ranked #37 on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time and which Time called “one of the best and truest books ...