9:40 PM Sun., May 13th

GLENN STOUT
A full-time author since 1993, since beginning a free-lance career in 1986 Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited more than eighty books representing sales of almost three million copies. He is the author of Boston Globe bestseller Fenway 1912, awarded the 2012 Seymour Medal by the Society for American Baseball Research, has served as Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991, is author of the award-winning “Good Sports” juvenile series and has written the text for thirty-nine titles in the best-selling Matt Christopher sports biography series for the juvenile market. Stout is also the author of the text for Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Changed the World, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century (selected by Book Magazine one of the five “Best Sports Books of 2002” and a finalist for the Casey Award), Red Sox Century (Casey Award finalist, Seymour Medal finalist, and finalist for the New England Book Award in non-fiction), Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life and Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and finalist for the Casey Award. He has also edited the anthologies Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection, Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection and Chasing Tiger: A Tiger Woods Reader. Stout also works as an editorial consultant for other authors, writes a monthly column for Boston Baseball and has published dozens of articles and columns in publications such as The New York Observer, ESPN.com, Runner’s World, The Sporting News, USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Baseball America, Sports Illustrated, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine, made numerous television and radio appearances on NPR, HBO, CNN, ESPN and other outlets. Stout has served as a Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Boston Public Library and spoken before groups such as the New York Historical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Old South Meeting House, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and others.
Glenn Stout is a native of Amlin, Ohio and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York with a degree in Creative Writing. From 1982 thru 1993 he worked at the Boston Public Library and in 1985 earned a Masters of Science degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. He has also worked as a janitor, a painter, a security guard, a construction worker and sold minor league baseball tickets. A full-time writer since 1993, Stout moved from Massachusetts to Vermont in 2003. He is an avid kayaker and photographer and plays the bodhran, a skin drum, in Irish sessions.
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