Darcy Frey and Alan Burdick
Darcy Frey is the author of The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, which was named a "Notable Book of the Year" by The New York Times Book Review and "arguably the best sports book ever written" by The Village Voice. Described by The Chicago Tribune as "a brilliant portrait of what has gone wrong in our cities, and by extension, in our country." His journalism has won many awards including: The National Magazine Award, The Livingston Award, The Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists as well as inclusion in the Best American Essays 1994 and Best American Science Writing 2002. One of his cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, "Something's Got to Give," was made into the feature film Pushing Tin by Twentieth Century Fox. Frey's second book, George Divoky's Planet, will be published by Pantheon.
Alan Burdick is the author of Out of Eden which was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Awards and a winner of the 2005 National Outdoor Book Awards. The Boston Globe hailed it as "One of the most comprehensive and readable accounts . . . for people trying to figure out how our species fits, or doesn't, into the natural order, there is no more interesting subject than the blending of the native and the exotic. And no more interesting an introduction than this fine book." Alan writes for numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, Natural History, and Discover, where he is a senior editor. Alan's work includes entry in the 2003 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology; winner of the 1995 AAAS Westinghouse prize for magazine feature-writing, and co-recipient of the 1992 Olive Branch Award.