Jeff Coplon is an American journalist

Journalist

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 and author.

Written Work

After eight years as a daily newspaper reporter, culminating in a stint at the Kansas City Times, he went on to co-write (or “ghost”) 11 autobiographies. These include works with Cher

Cher

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 and Bill Parcells

Bill Parcells

Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006...

, along with three New York Times best-sellers: Return with Honor (with Capt. Scott O’Grady, 1995); My Story (with Sarah, Duchess of York

Sarah, Duchess of York

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, 1996); and My Father’s Daughter (with Tina Sinatra

Tina Sinatra

Christina "Tina" Sinatra is the youngest child of Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. Christina's parents divorced when she was three years old...

, 2000). He also co-wrote, with Betty Mahmoody

Betty Mahmoody

Betty Mahmoody is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was subsequently made into a film of the same name...

, For the Love of a Child (1992), the sequel to Not Without My Daughter.

Coplon’s solo work includes a non-fictional treatment of rodeo

Rodeo

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 bull riding (Gold Buckle, HarperCollins West, 1995) and magazine pieces for New York (where he is a contributing editor), The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine

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, Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, Men’s Journal, and Playboy

Playboy

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. While his topics vary broadly, he has written frequently about NBA basketball

Basketball

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, and his work has twice been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing (1991 and 1997). His New York profile of the late Gerald Boyd, the highest-ranking black editor in the history of the New York Times, won a 2008 Mirror Award from the Newhouse School.

In a controversial article in The Village Voice

The Village Voice

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in 1988, Coplon analyzed the scholarship surrounding the Ukrainian famine

Denial of the Holodomor

Denial of the Holodomor is the assertion that the 1932-1933 Holodomor, an artificial famine in Soviet Ukraine, recognized as a crime against humanity by the European Parliament, did not occur....

 of the 1930s, and argued that allegations of genocide

Genocide

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against the Soviet Union were historically dubious and politically motivated as part of a campaign by the Ukrainian nationalist community.