Английская Википедия:Ira Berkow
Ira Berkow (born January 7, 1940) is an American sports reporter, columnist, and writer. He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to the staff of The New York Times for their series How Race Is Lived in America.
Life
Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.[1][2]
He was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, a syndicated features writer, sports and general columnist, and sports editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.[3]
From 1981 to 2007 he was a sports reporter and columnist for The New York Times[4][5] and has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Art News, Seventeen, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, National Strategic Forum Review, Reader's Digest, and Sports Illustrated, among others.[6]
He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his article "The Minority Quarterback"[7] in The New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America.[8][9] His work has been reprinted or cited over six decades in the annual anthologies Best Sports Stories and its successor Best American Sports Writing, and a column of his was included in Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999). The novelist Scott Turow wrote, "Ira Berkow is one of the great American writers, without limitation to the field of sports."
He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, "For thoughtful commentary on the sports scene."[10]
In 2006, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[11] He holds an honorary doctorate degree from Roosevelt University (Chicago), 2009.
Berkow is the author of 26 books including the Edgar Allan Poe Award nominated non-fiction The Man Who Robbed The Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever.[12]
Works
Books
- It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark, Triumph Books, 2017, Шаблон:ISBN
- Giants Among Men: Y.A., L.T., the Big Tuna, and Other New York Giants Stories, Triumph Books, 2015, Шаблон:ISBN
- Counterpunch: Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring, Triumph Books, 2014, Шаблон:ISBN
- Autumns in the Garden: The Coach of Camelot and Other Knicks Stories, Triumph Books, 2013, Шаблон:ISBN
- Summers at Shea: Tom Seaver Loses His Overcoat and Other Mets Stories, Triumph Books, 2013, Шаблон:ISBN
- Summers in the Bronx: Attila the Hun and Other Yankee Stories, Triumph Books, 2009, Шаблон:ISBN
- The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie, Triumph Books, 2009, Шаблон:ISBN
- Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life, Times Books, 1989, editor Шаблон:ISBN
- Red: A Biography of Red Smith, Rockin Steady, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, Шаблон:ISBN
- Court Vision, To The Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life, University of Nebraska Press, 2004, Шаблон:ISBN
- The Gospel According to Casey, (with Jim Kaplan), St. Martin's Press, 1992, Шаблон:ISBN
- The Minority Quarterback & Other Lives In Sports, I.R. Dee, 2002, Шаблон:ISBN
- Full Swing; Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2007, Шаблон:ISBN
- Maxwell Street, Survival in a Bazaar. Doubleday & Co., 1977, Шаблон:ISBN.
- To the Hoop The Seasons of a Basketball Life, Basic Books, 1997.
- How to Talk Jewish, by Jackie Mason (with Ira Berkow), St. Martin's Press, 1990
- Hank Greenberg: Hall-of-Fame Slugger, juvenile, The Jewish Publication Society, 1991
- Pitchers do Get Lonely, and Other Sports Stories, Atheneum, 1988
- Carew, by Rod Carew (with Ira Berkow), Simon and Schuster, 1979.
- The DuSable Panthers: The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Street in Chicago, 1978
- Beyond the Dream: Occasional Heroes of Sports, (foreword by Red Smith), Atheneum,1975
- Oscar Robertson: The Golden Year 1964, Prentice-Hall, 1971
- Rockin' Steady: A Guide to Basketball and Cool, by Walt "Clyde" Frazier (with Ira Berkow), 1974
- Wrigley Feld: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Chicago Cubs (with Josh Noel), Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2014.
- Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life, Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
- Baseball's Best Ever: A Half Century of Covering Hall of Famers, Sports Publishing, 2022.
Film
- Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, 2010 documentary film; writer
- Champions of American Sport, HBO documentary, 1983; film writer
References
Further reading
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