Books (all nonfiction):
“The Heart of Everything That Is: The Life and Times of Red Cloud, the Most Powerful Warrior Chief of the West,” to be published in March 2013 by Simon and Schuster.
“Gil Hodges: Hall of Famer,” to be published in April 2012 by NAL/Penguin Books.
“Last Man Out: The True Story of America’s Heroic Final Hours In Vietnam,” published in May 2011 by Free Press/Simon and Schuster.
“One For the Ages: Jack Nicklaus and the 1986 Masters,” published in March 2011 by Chicago Review Press.
“That Old Black Magic: Louis Prima, Keely Smith and the Golden Age of Las Vegas,” published in November 2010 by Chicago Review Press.
“Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero,” published in March 2010 by Touchstone/Simon and Schuster. The paperback edition was published in May 2011 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Maris’s 61 home runs in ’61.
“The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines In Combat,” published in January 2009 by the Atlantic Monthly Press and in its fourth printing. The trade paperback version was published in November 2009. In April 2010, the book received the Gen. Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for “the outstanding non-fiction book pertinent to Marine Corps history as judged by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.”
“Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue” published in January 2007 by the Atlantic Monthly Press. It was a New York Times best-seller. The trade paperback version was published in November 2007 and is in its seventh printing.
Previous books: “Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican” (McGraw-Hill, 2005); “Sir Walter: Walter Hagen and the Invention of Professional Golf” (Simon and Schuster, 2005); “The Ryder Cup: Golf’s Greatest Event” (Crown, 1999); “Fatal Analysis” (New Horizon Press, 1997); “The Power of Soul” (William Morrow, 1997); “We’re Not Normal” (Indy Books, 1997); “Juba This and Juba That” (Fireside, 1996); and “Raising the Rainbow Generation” (Fireside, 1993).
Magazines:
Over 200 articles have appeared in regional and national magazines, among them Access, Avenue, Child, Cosmopolitan, Distinction, Family Circle, Golf, Golf Journal, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents and Children, McCall’s, Men’s Journal, The Met Golfer, Parade, Reader’s Digest, Sesame Street Parents, and Woman’s Day.
Awards include first place in the Best Magazine Article of the Year category five times from the Press Club of Long Island and second place seven times.
I guest-edited the special issue of The North Atlantic Review devoted to John Steinbeck, and I founded the literary magazine Prufrock at the University of Southern California.
Newspapers:
I was a contributing reporter for The New York Times 1984-97. I returned to reporting for The Times in 2003 through 2005. My op-ed column “Farther East” appears every week in the editions of the Press News Group along with regular arts features. The Press received 2008 and 2009 first-place awards from the New York State Press Association for its Op-Ed and Arts sections, and “Farther East” received the Best News Column Award from the Long Island chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in June 2008. National and regional awards have been received in the Best Deadline News Story, Best Reporting in the Arts, Best Science Reporting, and Best Environmental Reporting categories.