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Thomas McCarthy Award-Winning Ghostwriter and Editor

Awards and Honors

  • Sports Illustrated Top Books of the Year: Facing Ali

  • Harvard University’s Goldsmith Award, Book of the Year: Embedded, The Media at War in Iraq

  • Readers Digest, Top Five Summer Books, King of Heists

  • Esquire magazine’s Year’s Five Best Reads:  Far Afield, A Sportswriting Odyssey

  • E-Captain:  Best Books of the Year:  Crossing the Bar, The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot 

  • Silver Medal: Independent Publishers: Best Regional Non-Fiction, For Sale: American Paradise: How Our Nation was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida

  • American Library Association, Best Non-Fiction, In the Margins Book Award for America's Massacre: The Audacity of Despair and a Message of Hope 

  • Foreword, Best Sports Books:  Cohn-Head

  • BookSense Notable Pick:  Patriots Act: Voices of Dissent

  • BookSense Notable Pick: The Color of Love

  • Ben Franklin Award Finalist: Hell Is Over, Voices of the Kurds After Saddam

  • CASEY Award Finalist for Spitball, The Literary Baseball Magazine:  A Tale of Two Cities

  • (Two) Runner’s World Best Books of the Year: Everyone’s Guide to Running and Be Iron Fit

  • Ben Franklin Award, Sports: Duty, Honor, Victory, America’s Athletes in World War II

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