Dan Jenkins is an American

United States

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 author and sportswriter, most notably for Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

.

Jenkins was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

, where he attended R .L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University (TCU)

Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ...

, where he played on the varsity golf

Golf

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 team. Jenkins has worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald

Dallas Times Herald

The Dallas Times Herald, founded in 1888 by a merger of the Dallas Times and the Dallas Herald, was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas, Texas area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, for local and regional reporting...

, Playboy

Playboy

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, and Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

, where among other things he covered the 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1971 versions of the college football Game of the Century

Game of the Century (college football)

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. In 1985 he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time, although he maintains a monthly column in Golf Digest

Golf Digest

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magazine.

Larry King

Larry King

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....

 has called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins has written numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough

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. Jenkins now lives in Fort Worth with his family.

In 2010 Jenkins drew negative attention for a comment he made on Twitter

Twitter

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. During the Masters Tournament he jokingly compared Y.E. Yang to a Chinese food delivery guy by writing, "Y.E. Yang is only three shots off the lead. I think we got takeout from him last night."

His daughter Sally Jenkins

Sally Jenkins

Sally Jenkins is an American sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post. Prior employment includes senior writer for Sports Illustrated. She is a graduate of Stanford with degree in English Literature....

 is a sports columnist for the Washington Post.

Books

• Dead Solid Perfect
  Dead Solid Perfect
  Dead Solid Perfect is a 1988 American film following the life of a professional golfer on the PGA Tour. It was produced by HBO films and based on the novel of the same name by Dan Jenkins....
  
  
• Slim and None
• The Eternal Summer: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Hogan in 1960, Golf's Golden Year by Curt Sampson and Dan Jenkins
• Semi-Tough: A Novel
• The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist
• Baja Oklahoma
  Baja Oklahoma
  Baja Oklahoma was a 1988 HBO Original Film starring Lesley Ann Warren. Written by Dan Jenkins, it included appearances by Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, and Julia Roberts.-Other:...
  
  
• Fairways and Greens
• You Gotta Play Hurt
• Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Football, and Other Matters That Occasionally Matter
• Life Its Ownself: The Semi-Tougher Adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett and Them
• Rude Behavior
• Fast Copy: A Novel (Texas Tradition Series) by Dan Jenkins and Sally Jenkins
• Football by Walter Iooss
  Walter Iooss
  Walter Iooss Jr. is a professional photographer.He is best known for his work with Sports Illustrated magazine, which has featured his photos on its cover several times and for his portraits of famous athletes such as Michael Jordan, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Ken Griffey, Jr....
  
   and Dan Jenkins
• Limo by Dan Jenkins, and Edwin Shrake
• Sports illustrated's the best 18 golf holes in America
• Life Its Ownself
• Best American Sports Writing 1995 (Best American Sports Writing) by Dan Jenkins and Glenn Stout
• Saturday's America
• The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate
• You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There (1989) ISBN 978-0517076064
• The Franchise Babe (2008)
• Jenkins at the Majors (2009)

External links

• Dan Jenkins Profile