Frank Deford

About the Author

Frank Deford is a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated, is heard every Wednesday on NPR’s Morning Edition, and is a regular correspondent on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He is the author of fourteen books, two of which have been made into movies, including Everybody’s All-American with Dennis Quaid and Jessica Lange. He has been voted U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times, and GQ magazine has called him, simply, “the world’s greatest sportswriter.” He has also won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.