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Columnist Biography: Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson has been a sports columnist at The New York Times since November
1971, after having been a general assignment sports reporter since joining the
newspaper in 1966.
Mr. Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize winner, capturing the 1981 award for distinguished
commentary for his sports column.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Anderson was a member of the sports staff of the now
defunct New York Journal-American for 11 years. Before that, he was a sports writer
with the Brooklyn Eagle, which folded in 1955.
Born in Troy, N.Y. on May 6, 1929, Mr. Anderson, received a B.A. degree in English
Literature from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. in 1951.
He is the author of 21 books and has written more than 350 magazine articles.
His writing appears in several anthologies including: "The Realm of Sport," "The
Grantland Rice Prize Sports Stories," "Assignment America," "The Baseball Reader,"
"The Golf Book," "Sports Classics" and "Great Golf Stories."
Mr. Anderson is a 1994 winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith
Award for distinguished sports column writing. He was inducted into the National
Sports Writers and Sportscasters Hall of Fame in Salisbury, N.C. in 1990, joining three
other former "Sports of The Times," columnists -- Red Smith, Arthur Daley and John
Kieran.
In 1974, he won the Nat Fleischer Award for excellence in boxing journalism. In 1972,
he won the E.P. Dutton Award for the best sports feature story of the year, the return
of the heavyweight champion Joe Frazier to his Beaufort, S.C. hometown, (he won a
Page One Award for the same story.) In 1965, he won the E.P. Dutton Award for the
best magazine sports story for "The Longest Day of Sugar Ray," which appeared in
True magazine.
Source: The New York Times Columnist Biographies