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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected-and most popular-of its kind.
The Best American Sports Writing 2011 includes
Paul Solotaroff, Sally Jenkins, Wells Tower, John McPhee, David Dobbs, Wright Thompson, P. J. O'Rourke, Selena Roberts, and others
About the author
Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.
Report
2010:
"Each of these selections transcends its athletic subject . . . will be a hit with both sports fans and those who are simply fans of good nonfiction." -- Library Journal
"Venerable (and venerated) baseball writer Gammons makes some fine picks in this twentieth annual installment of the excellent series." -- Booklist
2008:
"Gives readers an opportunity to see what they've missed by failing to subscribe not only to Sports Illustrated, but to Runner's World, Esquire, The New York Times, and several more obscure print publications as well as lots of websites." - Boston Globe
2007: "Memorable reading. A must for all sports collections." - Booklist
