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IRA
BERKOW
Country: United States
Born: January 7, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois
In 2001,
New York Times sports feature writer-columnist Ira Berkow
won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his article, "The Minority
Quarterback," in the New York Times series "How Race
is Lived in America," and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1988 for distinguished
commentary. He has been the only sportswriter featured
for five decades (since 1969) in the highly regarded Best
American Sports Writing, and was featured in David Halberstam’s
1999 edition of The Best American Sports Writing of
the Century. A NY Times writer-columnist for 26 years, Berkow
co-wrote and edited the best-selling book, Hank Greenberg: The Story
of My Life, which was the foundation for the year-2000
award-winning documentary film: The Life & Times of
Hank Greenberg. Among the books Berkow has authored: Red:
A Biography of Red Smith, Rockin Steady (Walt Frazier story),
Court Vision, To The Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life, The Gospel According to Casey
(Casey Stengel), The
Minority Quarterback & Other Lives In Sports (based
upon his Pulitzer Prize winning NY Times article) and his
memoir, "Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's
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