Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2011 Presenters

Jane Leavy

Sports: Writers on Deck 1:00pm Back Bay Events Center- Quincy Suite

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Jane Leavy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She was a staff writer at womenSports, Self magazine, and The Washington Post, and she has written for many other publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, and The New York Daily News. Her work has been anthologized in several collections, including The Best American Sports Writing, a volume she'll be guest-editing in 2011. 

LINKS:

Jane Leavy's web site

An essay by Jane Leavy on her father and golf, for ESPN's Grantland


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