Glenn Stout is the author, editor or ghostwriter of nearly 100 books, including YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World (now in post-production as a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE for Disney+ starring Daisy Ridley. The Year's Best Sports Writing 2021, TIGER GIRL AND THE CANDY KID: AMERICA'S ORIGINAL GANGSTER COUPLE, NY Times bestseller The Pats: An Illustrated History of the New England Patriots, The Selling of the Babe, the groundbreaking Boston Globe bestsellers Fenway 1912 and Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, and the critically acclaimed Nine Months at Ground Zero, and He served as Series Editor for The Best American Sports Writing since its inception. He has been awarded both the Seymour Medal and Ritter Award by the Society for American Baseball Research and "Yes, She Can!" was named on the 2012 Amelia Bloomer list for feminist content.
Glenn also teaches and consults on all aspects of writing, including proposals, manuscripts and longform narrative journalism.
Born in Ohio and a graduate of Bard College, Glenn is dual citizen of the United States and Canada and lived many years In Boston's South End and elsewhere in Massachusetts. He now lives in Vermont with his family on Lake Champlain. Before becoming a writer Glenn did construction work, served as a security guard, a painter, and worked in libraries. Glenn invites his readers to his blog, to join his facebook page for The Year's Best Sports Writing or Young Woman and the Sea. Anyone interested in arranging an "author visit" or consulting should query Glenn directly - Google his website
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