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In Red, the personality, career, and world of one of America's best writers and most honored sports journalists are brought warmly to life. From Red Smith's first story for the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1927 to his last column for the New York Times five days before his death in 1982, his inimitable style graced the country's sports pages for over half a century. Even in his earliest column, his writing showed evidence of the wit, clarity, and eloquence that would become his hallmarks. In 1976 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. The people who appear throughout Red comprise a distinguished twentieth-century hall of fame: Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe Louis, Ernest Hemingway, Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner, and Damon Runyon. A biography of one of this country's finest writers, Red is also American history of a rich and lasting sort.

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Red is a terrific book, and a fine tribute to one of the best writers of our time, --Peter Delacorte, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review If you never read another biography, by all means read Ira Berkow's Red, a brilliant look at the life of Red Smith, --Larry King, USA Today A skillful biography of the legendary sports columnist and unrelenting competitor whose columns were his life, by a New York Times sports columnist, --New York Times Sunday Book Review's Notable Books of the Year The best biographies accurately reflect the lives and work of their subjects, as well as the time in which he or she lived. This well-researched, well-written effort meets those and any other standards. --Booklist

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Ira Berkow recently retired after twenty-six years as a sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting, he has written numerous books, including Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball, available in a Bison Books edition, and most recently a memoir, Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life.

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