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David Maraniss

The Life and Legend of Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe emerged from the Sac and Fox Nation upon the Oklahoma plains to become one of America's first sports superstars, earning Olympic gold before pioneering professional football and baseball. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David Maraniss, author of the Thorpe biography ‘Path Lit By Lightning,' discusses the life and legacy of the man who was heroic on the field but complicated off of it.














About The Author
David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s—Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).
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