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Frank Deford Quotes
Showing all quotesBirth: | 16th December, 1938 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
Frank Deford was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an American journalist, sportswriter, and novelist. In addition to his 50-year tenure at Sports Illustrated, where he now holds the title of Senior Contributing Writer, he appears monthly on National Public Radio and as Senior Correspondent for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO. He has written 18 books, nine of them novels. In 2012 he became the first magazine recipient of the Red Smith Award. In 2013 he was presented with the William Allen White Citation for "excellence in journalism" by the University of Kansas and became the first sports journalist ever to receive the National Press Foundation's highest honor, the W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism.
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