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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Texas Christian University Press,U.S.

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780875657011

RRP: £31.95

PAGES: 176

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 30, 2018

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Sports Makes You Type Faster: The Entire World of Sports by One of America’s Most Famous Sportswriters

Dan Jenkins

Sports Makes You Type Faster presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America’s best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins’s hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises alike-with results that will make you laugh out loud.Winner of the 2012 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, Dan Jenkins became nationally known for his twenty-five-year-long career with Sports Illustrated, and later for his work as a feature writer and essayist for Golf Digest. His many novels include bestsellers like Semi-Tough, Baja Oklahoma, and Dead Solid Perfect-all of which were made into movies. Among other achievements, Jenkins has been honored with the 2013 Red Smith Award and the 2017 Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism, and in 2012 he was inducted into the 2012 World Golf Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Category.

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Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins is the author of twenty-three books-twelve novels and eleven works of nonfiction, written over a career that has spanned seven decades. A TCU graduate, Jenkins spent fifteen years writing for Fort Worth and Dallas newspapers before heading for New York and national fame. One of only four writers who have been inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Jenkins has also been inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, and the Texas Golf Hall of Fame, among many other honors. After thirty years in New York City, Jenkins and his wife June returned to Fort Worth, where they now live.