Ira Berkow
Ira Berkow (born January 7, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning sports reporter, columnist and writer.
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[edit] Life
Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.[1] [2]
He was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, a syndicated features writer and sports editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association.[3]
From 1981 to 2007 he was a sports reporter and columnist for the The New York Times [4] [5] 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.[6]
He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his article "The Minority Quarterback"[7] in The New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America. [8] [9]
He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, "For thoughtful commentary on the sports scene."[10]
In 2006, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[11]
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.' [12]
[edit] Works
[edit] 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.
[edit] Film
- Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, 2010 documentary film; writer
[edit] References
- ^ "Ira Berkow". Medill School Northwestern University. http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/alumni/hallofachievement.aspx?id=116967. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^ "Ira Berkow Papers at the American Jewish Historical Society". American Jewish Historical Society. http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1016949. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^ "Sportswriter Ira Berkow Reminiscence". Evesmag.com. http://www.evesmag.com/berkow.htm. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Ira Berkow". http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/team/ira.html. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^ "Sportswriter Ira Berkow Reminiscence". Evesmag.com. http://www.evesmag.com/berkow.htm. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Ira Berkow". http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/team/ira.html. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^ Ira Berkow (July 2, 2000). "The Minority Quarterback". The New York Times. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/070200berkow-sports.html. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ^ "Ira Berkow". Jewishsports.net. January 7, 1940. http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/IraBerkow.html. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Pulitzer Series". Nl.edu. http://www.nl.edu/academics/cas/writtencomm/Pulitzer-Series.cfm. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Finalists". Pulitzer.org. February 20, 1988. http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1988. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (2010). "Ira Berkow". http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/IraBerkow.html. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ^ "Edgar Award Winners and Nominees". Mystery Writers of America. http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
