Michael Granberry was born and grew up in Dallas. He graduated from Samuell High School in the Pleasant Grove section of Dallas in 1970 and from Southern Methodist University in 1974. Between his junior and senior years, he interned at The Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973. After college, he spent 1975 and most of 1976 in Anchorage, Alaska, working for what was then the state's largest newspaper, where he soon became sports editor. And where he was fond of saying: "I am editor of the most outstanding section of the largest newspaper, in the largest state, in the most powerful nation of the world." He returned to Dallas from 1976 to 1978 to become a Sunday magazine feature writer for The Dallas Morning News, which sent him to such places as Cuba and a kayaking adventure in the Sea of Cortez. In October 1978, he moved to the West Coast and spent 19 years at The Los Angeles Times before returning to Dallas AND the Morning News, where he worked for 26 years before retiring. "Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever," published in 2022 and co-authored with Burk Murchison, the son of the Cowboys' founder and first owner, is Michael's first book.
