Mark Kram Jr.

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<p><strong>Mark Kram, Jr</strong>. won the 2013 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for his first book, <em>Like Any Normal Day: A Story of Devotion. </em>Articles by him have appeared in <em>The Best American Sports Writing</em> and will be included in the forthcoming anthology, <em>The Great American Sports Page. </em>The Society of Professional Journalists honored him with the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature writing. Formerly a sports writer in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Baltimore, he is the son of the late Mark Kram, the acclaimed journalist for <em>Sports Illustrated</em> and author of <em>Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. </em>He has edited a collection of his father’s magazine pieces, <em>Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram. </em>He lives outside Philadelphia. </p>