Frank Deford

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<B>Frank Deford</B> is a Senior Writer at <I>Sports Illustrated</I>, is heard every Wednesday on NPR's <I>Morning Edition</I>, and is a regular correspondent on HBO's <I>Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel</I>. He is the author of fourteen books, two of which have been made into movies, including <I>Everybody's All-American</I> with Dennis Quaid and Jessica Lange. He has been voted U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times, and <I>GQ</I> magazine has called him, simply, "the world's greatest sportswriter." He has also won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.