James S. Hirsch is an American journalist and author who has written about sports, race, and American culture. He was a reporter for '' The New York Times'' and '' The Wall Street Journal'', and his first book was the best-selling ''Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter''. Hirsch has also written ''Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy'', ''Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam'', and ''Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes''. His biography of Willie Mays, released in February 2010, describes how the Negro leagues phenom became an instant sensation with the

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...

in the 1950s, was the headliner in Major League Baseball's expansion to California, and played an important but underappreciated role in the civil rights movement. Hirsch, a graduate of the

Missouri School of Journalism The Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia is one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. The school provides academic education and practical training in all areas of journalism and strategic comm ...

and the

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (or LBJ School of Public Affairs) is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970 to offer training in public policy analysis and administration for students that ar ...

, lives in the Boston area.

Bibliography

* ''Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter'' Mariner Books. * ''Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy'' Mariner Books. * ''Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam'' Houghton Mifflin. * ''Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes, America's Biggest Epidemic'' Houghton Mifflin. * ''Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend'' New York: Scribner. * '' Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (with Mike Love) ''

External links

''Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend'' Official Website

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hirsch, James S. American male writers Living people Missouri School of Journalism alumni Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs alumni Year of birth missing (living people)