Daniel Okrent: Author, Journalist, Editor, & Inventor of Fantasy Sports
DANIEL OKRENT is the award-winning author of six books, including “The Guarded Gate,” and “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011),” which was cited by the American Historical Association as the year’s best book on American history. “Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. Among his many jobs in publishing, he was corporate editor-at-large at Time Inc., and was the first public editor of the New York Times.
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Alastair Gordon: Author, Journalist, Publisher, Artist
ALASTAIR GORDON is an award-winning critic, curator, cultural historian and author.
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Jane Leavy: Author of the 3 Best Baseball Biographies — Sandy, Mickey, & Babe
JANE LEAVY is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers ‘The Big Fella, Babe Ruth and the World He Created;’ ‘The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood;’ ‘Sandy Koufax, A Lefty’s Legacy;’ and the comic novel ‘Squeeze Play,’ which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.”
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Daniel Okrent’s 2004 New York Times Column Even More Relevant Today
Editor’s Note: In October 2003, Daniel Okrent was named the first public editor for the New York Times (NYT) following the Jayson Blair...
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