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  <name><![CDATA[Joe Drape]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Joe Drape is a reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Race for the Triple Crown and Black Maestro. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, he previously worked for The Dallas Morning News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When he doesn’t live in Kansas, he lives in New York City with his wife and son]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[My Dad who always had the morning and evening newspaper on the kitchen table. My Mother who, on the too frequent times I was in trouble, punished me by making me read Huck Finn, The Jungle Book, Le Morte d'Arthur and other classics. I owe them my love of the written word and story telling, my career and a whole lot more.]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Kansas City</hometown>  <born_at>10/03/1961</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Race for the Triple Crown: Horses, High Stakes and Eternal Hope]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Race for the Triple Crown]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[In the Hornets' Nest: Charlotte and Its First Year in the Nba]]></title>
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