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Frank Deford
June 23, 2008
Author and commentator Frank
Deford is a Senior Contributing Writer at Sports Illustrated
where he began writing in the early 1960s. On radio, Deford may
be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on National Public
Radio's "Morning Edition" and, on television, he is
a regular correspondent on the HBO show "RealSports with
Bryant Gumbel."
As a journalist, Deford has
been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association
of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Six times Deford was voted
by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of The Year. The American Journalism
Review has likewise cited him as the nation's finest sportswriter,
and twice he was voted Magazine Writer of The Year by the Washington
Journalism Review.
The Sporting News has described
Deford as "the most influential sports voice among members
of the print media," and the magazine GQ has called him,
simply, "the world's greatest sportswriter." In broadcast,
Deford has won both an Emmy (for his work during the Seoul Olympics)
and a George Foster Peabody Award. ESPN presented a television
biography of Deford's life and work, "You Write Better Than
You Play."
Deford is also the author of
fifteen books. The most recent, The Entitled, a novel about celebrity,
sex and baseball, was published earlier this year. Two of his
books - the novel Everybody's All-American and Alex: The Life
Of A Child, his memoir about his daughter who died of cystic
fibrosis - have been made into movies. |
