Tom Friend is an author, feature writer, script writer, documentarian, columnist, reporter, producer and commentator who has worked at ESPN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Star, the San Jose Mercury News and the National Sports Daily. His book, "The Chicken Runs At Midnight,'' was a 2018 finalist for the CASEY award, given to the best baseball book of the year, and his TV version of "The Chicken Runs at Midnight'' -- which he reported and wrote for ESPN -- was nominated for a 2016 Sports Emmy. He recently wrote, reported and co-produced "Quiet Storm,'' a film on the life of basketball player Ron Artest which won best documentary at the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and debuted on Showtime in May of 2019. He also won a 2012 Headliner Award for co-directing the ESPN documentary, “Going Big,’’ on the life of Sam Bowie, the star-crossed NBA player drafted ahead of Michael Jordan. He has had multiple stories reprinted in anthology, "The Best American Sports Writing'' and has had his work cited by Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. A graduate of the University of Missouri journalism school and a native of Washington, D.C., he lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.
