Ira Berkow
Encyclopedia
Ira Berkow is an American Pulitzer Prize
winning sports reporter, columnist and writer.
Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University
, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism
, Northwestern University
.
He was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, a syndicated features writer and sports editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
From 1981 to 2007 he was a sports reporter and columnist for the The New York Times
and has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Art News, Seventeen, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, National Strategic Forum Review, Readers' Digest and Sports Illustrated, among others.
He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his article "The Minority Quarterback" in The New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America.
He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, "For thoughtful commentary on the sports scene."
In 2006, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
.
Berkow wrote the script for the documentary film Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
(2010) and is the author of 18 books including the Edgar Allan Poe Award nominated non-fiction 'The Man Who Robbed The Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever.'
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning sports reporter, columnist and writer.
Life
Miami University
Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...
, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism
Medill School of Journalism
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University which offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It has consistently been one of the top-ranked schools in Journalism in the United States...
, Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
.
He was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, a syndicated features writer and sports editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
From 1981 to 2007 he was a sports reporter and columnist for the The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Art News, Seventeen, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, National Strategic Forum Review, Readers' Digest and Sports Illustrated, among others.
He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his article "The Minority Quarterback" in The New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America.
He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, "For thoughtful commentary on the sports scene."
In 2006, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame was opened July 7, 1981, in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around the world....
.
Berkow wrote the script for the documentary film Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story is a 2010 American documentary film narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ira Berkow, and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Miller...
(2010) and is the author of 18 books including the Edgar Allan Poe Award nominated non-fiction 'The Man Who Robbed The Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever.'
Books
- Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life, Times Books, 1989, ISBN 9780812917413
- Red: A Biography of Red Smith, Rockin Steady, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, ISBN 9780803260405
- Court Vision, To The Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life, University of Nebraska Press, 2004, ISBN 9780803262294
- The Gospel According to Casey, St. Martin's Press, 1992, ISBN 9780312069223
- The Minority Quarterback & Other Lives In Sports, I.R. Dee, 2002, ISBN 9781566634229
- Full Swing; Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer’s Life, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2007, ISBN 9781566637558
- Maxwell Street, Survival in a Bazaar. Doubleday & Co., 1977, ISBN 0385067232.