Ira Berkow is both a Pulitzer-prize winner for national reporting and a Pulitzer-prize finalist for distinguished commentary, and the author of twenty-six books, including the bestsellers Red: A Biography of Red Smith, Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar, and Rockin' Steady: A Guide to Basketball and Cool (with Walt Frazier), as well as nine anthologies of his journalism. A sports reporter and columnist for the New York Times for over two decades, his work has regularly been reprinted in literary anthologies, college rhetoric textbooks, in the prestigious annual anthology Best American Sports Writing, as well as The Best American Sports Writing of the Century. He resides in New York City.
Praise for How Life Imitates Sports "In his lengthy career, Berkow has seen and heard plenty and his past--filled with players and coaches and games and fans--pops off the pages of his latest book, a thick and pleasurable compendium of his decades as one of this country's premiere sportswriters." --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune "In How Life Imitates Sports, Ira Berkow [does] remind us how great sportswriters have enriched us by writing about the world, on and off the court." --George Vecsey, author of Baseball: History of America's Favorite Game "Berkow offers a wide-ranging collection of pieces on athletes and sports events from 1970 forward....the book serves as a fine retrospective of 50 years on the sports beat. For those who value sports journalism, Berkow's work is certain to endure." --Booklist "Ira Berkow is a veteran sports writer whose career has mirrored the span of sporting events and athletes vicariously witnessed by the reviewer. His respective book, How Life Imitates Sports, with witty and erudite observations, will evoke memories which readers of a similar vintage have used to mark their own passages through time." --Lincoln Journal Star Praise for Ira Berkow "Ira Berkow gets inside people. It can be stated as a law that the sports writer whose horizons are no wider than the outfield fences is a bad sports writer because he has no sense of proportion and no awareness of the real world around him. Ira Berkow knows that what is important about a game is not the score but the people who play it." --Red Smith, from the foreword to Beyond the Dream "Ira Berkow is one of the best sportswriters around, so it is no surprise that his basketball odyssey is one of the best sports books of this or any other year....Very few sports columnists have the genius to produce a timely piece that is also timeless. Ira Berkow has that ability in spades." --George Plimpton (for To the Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life) "With the keen eye of a reporter, the literary touch of a highly skilled writer, and above all a feel for the humanity in every story, Ira takes his readers to a place beyond and above what even competent sports writing generally delivers." --Bob Costas "Ira Berkow over the years has regularly given us sports writing of the most elegant kind--his work glistens with intelligence and sensitivity." --David Halberstam "Like anyone else who I think is good, Ira Berkow can write just as well about things other than sports as he can about sports." --Dick Schaap "Ira Berkow is simply one of America's best writers, sports or otherwise." --Jim Bouton (for Pitchers Do Get Lonely: And Other Sports Stories)
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