Английская Википедия:Gary Smith (sportswriter)
Gary Smith (born October 27, 1953)[1] is an American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest stories in Sports Illustrated, where he worked from 1983 to 2013.[2]
Career
Smith worked as a sportswriter for the Wilmington News Journal, the Philadelphia Daily News, the New York Daily News, and Inside Sports before joining Sports Illustrated.[1] His writing has also appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.[3]
For many years, Smith's role as senior writer at Sports Illustrated has been to write four lengthy feature articles per year, most of which are in-depth personality profiles.[1][3] His wife, Sally, has described his motivation as follows: "He is not satisfied with putting facts together. He wants to understand what is the core conflict that has driven that person. He hopes to tell a secret that a person might not be aware of."[4] Several of Smith's subjects have attested to his profound insight.[5]
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] Some of his literary peers have called him "the best magazine writer in America"[4][6] and "America's best sportswriter".[6] He also has been cited as a role model by younger sportswriters.[7][8]
He was inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame in either 2020 or 2021.[9]
Bibliography
Smith has published two books; both are collections of his magazine features:
- Beyond The Game: The Collected Sports Writing of Gary Smith, published in 2001.
- Sports Illustrated: Going Deep: 20 Classic Sports Stories, published in 2008.
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 Шаблон:Cite magazine
- ↑ ESPN.com's Scoop Jackson cites Smith as a role model
- ↑ Baltimore Sun sportswriter Kevin Van Valkenburg cites Smith as his primary role model
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240228162021/http://www.desports.org/inductees/2020-2021/
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