Anderson's Book Shop is pleased to host a book signing for Kostya Kennedy.
Peter Rose examines the life of the polarizing sports legend, from his
record-setting career, to being banished from the game for being an
unrepentant gambler and discusses the complex moral issues keeping him
out of Cooperstown in a time of steroid cheats.
Kostya Kennedy, an assistant managing editor at Sports
Illustrated, is the New York Times bestselling author
of 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, winner of
the 2011 Casey Award and runner-up for the 2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary
Sports Writing. He has been a staff writer at Newsday and contributed to The New
York Times and The New Yorker. He earned an M.S. from Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Journalism, from which he received a Pulitzer Fellowship. He
has taught in the graduate journalism programs at Columbia and at N.Y.U. For more, visit www.kostyakennedy.com
