Virtual event with Dave Kindred/Leave Out the Tragic Parts

Dave Kindred has been a columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The National Sports Daily, Sporting News, and Golf Digest. Kindred is the author of several books including Heroes, Fools and Other Dreamers: A Sportswriter's Gallery of Extraordinary People, Around the World in 18 Holes, Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive, and Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship.

Kindred is one of only two writers who have earned sportswriting's three highest honors: the Red Smith Award, the PEN America ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He also has won the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award (for outstanding media contributions) as well as a National Headliner award for general-interest columns. He is a member of The National Sports Media Hall of Fame. He lives in Illinois.

Jane Leavy

Jane Leavy is the author of three 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 and Sandy Koufax, A Lefty’s Legacy. The Big Fella, was awarded SABR’s Seymour Medal, presented annually to the best book of baseball history or biography. She was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.  She is also the author of the comic novel Squeeze Play, which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.”