SPOTLIGHT ON SPORTS HISTORY – NONFICTION

CHRISTOPHER CLAREY covered global sports for The New York Times and The New York Times International Edition (formerly The International Herald Tribune) for more than 30 years from bases in France, Spain, and the U.S. He wrote a general sports column, In the Arena, for 16 years. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and the Olympics, reporting from more than 100 Grand Slam tournaments and from seven Summer Olympics, seven Winter Olympics, and nine world track and field championships. In 2021, his in-depth biography of Roger Federer, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer, became a New York Times bestseller and international success. Fluent in French and Spanish, he has traveled in and reported from more than 70 countries on six continents. In 2018, he received the Eugene L. Scott Award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is also a past winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the breaking news category for coverage of South African runner Caster Semenya. A former television commentator for Eurosport, he has made regular appearances for more than 20 years on major international television and radio outlets. His other areas of expertise include soccer and sailing; he has covered six World Cups and five America’s Cups. He also has reported on nearly every major international sport, covering 21 British Opens, 10 Ryder Cups, eight world figure skating championships, the Super Bowl, and the Rugby Union World Cup. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he majored in English and history and was a soccer goalkeeper, captain of the volleyball team, and the No. 1 tennis player. He and his wife, Virginie, are proud parents of three multilingual daughters and are based in the Boston area and Paris.

S. L. PRICE, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated for 26 years, is the author of five books, including Playing Through the Whistle, a finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Pitching Around Fidel, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Price has also written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Time, and Oxford American. He lives in Washington, D.C .,with his family.