
from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, from which he received a Pulitzer Fellowship. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football followed a season of high school football. Kennedy’s 2016 book Lasting Impact: One Team, One Season. Both were New York Times bestsellers and each received the CASEY Award as Best Baseball Book of its respective year.

He has been a staff writer at Newsday and has written for The New York Times, Time,, The Huffington Post and The New Yorker.Īlong with 2022’s True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, Kennedy is the author of the award-winning 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, as well as Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. He is a former assistant managing editor and senior writer at Sports Illustrated.

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Kostya Kennedy is an editorial director at Dotdash Meredith, overseeing special editions under LIFE, People, EatingWell, Real Simple, Health, Entertainment Weekly and other brands.
