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A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, football and the Olympics, many of them best sellers.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.

His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now childrens’ book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel.