Frank Deford, an award-winning journalist, author, and sports commentator, has been recognized by many as the quintessential sportswriter and commentator of the 20th century. An Emmy-winning commentator for ESPN Radio and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, he spent nearly 30 years writing for Sports Illustrated magazine before moving to Newsweek in 1991. As a journalist he has been contributing editor to Vanity Fair and Editor-in-Chief to the National Sports Daily. He has been voted U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times by his peers, and twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review. On television, he is a regular correspondent on the HBO show, RealSports With Bryant Gumbel. He has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters.

Deford is the author of twelve books, two of which have been made into movies: Everybody’s All American and Alex: The Life of a Child, his memoir about his daughter who died of cyctic fibrosis. For sixteen years, Deford served as national chairman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and he remains chairman emeritus. He resides in Westport, Connecticut with his wife, Carol.

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