Charlie Pierce
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Charles P. ("Charlie") Pierce (b. December 28, 1953, Worcester, Massachusetts) is a nationally-known American sportswriter, author, and game show panelist.[1]
He graduated with a journalism major from Marquette University in 1975.[2]
Pierce's first job was as a forest ranger for the state of Massachusetts, where among other duties he retrieved disposable diapers from trees so that raccoons would not choke on them.[3] He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Blizzard of 1978.[4]
Pierce currently writes for the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, a position he has held since April 2002. He has also written for the The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Sports Illustrated, Esquire and GQ magazines, and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman.
Pierce also makes appearances on radio as a regular contributor to NPR programs Only A Game and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!. Recently Pierce has begun making weekly appearances on the Stephanie Miller Show. He also represented the Globe on several occasions on ESPN's Around the Horn. He also often co-hosts with Bob Ryan on NESN's Globe 10.0.
[edit] Publications
Pierce has written four books:[3]
- Sports Guy (2000)
- Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (2001)
- Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything (2006)
- Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ . Worcester Magazine. 2006-04-27. http://www.worcestermag.com/archives/2006/04-27-06/city_desk.html.
- ^ "Charles P. Pierce". Charles Pierce. http://www.charlespierce.net/aboutPage.
- ^ a b "About the Panelists". National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/aboutpanelists.html.
- ^ Chet Williamson (2008-02-21). "30th Anniversary: Blizzard of '78". Worcester Magazine. http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/2472/.
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