Dan Jenkins (1) (1928–2019)
Auteur van Semi-Tough
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Over de Auteur
Dan Thomas Jenkins was born in Fort Worth, Texas on December 2, 1928. He graduated from Texas Christian University. In the mid-1950s, he became a writer and editor at The Fort Worth Press. He was promoted to sports editor before joining Sports Illustrated in 1962, where his main beats were golf and toon meer college football. His first novel, Semi-Tough, was published in 1972 and adapted into a movie in 1978. His other novels included Dead Solid Perfect, Baja Oklahoma, You Gotta Play Hurt, and Limo written with Bud Shrake. His memoir, His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir, was published in 2014. He later wrote for Playboy and was a senior writer for Golf Digest. He died on March 7, 2019 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Reeksen
Werken van Dan Jenkins
Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger (2009) 22 exemplaren
Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Football, and Other Matters… (1993) 13 exemplaren
I'll Tell You One Thing: The Untold Truth About Texas, America & College Football, With Pictures to Prove It (1999) 7 exemplaren
Greatest Moments in TCU Football 1 exemplaar
"The Best of the Bowl Crop" 1 exemplaar
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The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting (2010) — Voorwoord — 7 exemplaren
Sports Illustrated Presents That Championship Season: Nebraska 1994 (1995) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Jenkins, Dan Thomas
- Geboortedatum
- 1928-12-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2019-03-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Florida, USA
- Opleiding
- Texas Christian University
- Beroepen
- sportswriter
novelist
memoirist - Organisaties
- Golf Digest
Sports Illustrated
Playboy
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Besprekingen
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 27
- Ook door
- 5
- Leden
- 1,200
- Populariteit
- #21,382
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 23
- ISBNs
- 126
Yes, there's humor here that won't fly with modern sensibilities. The racism of the characters (not the work itself) is going to be too much for some readers, who expect all character flaws to be punished or at least explicitly condemned by the narrative.
Folksy and funny.