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Rob Kirkpatrick

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History, Biographies & Memoirs

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ROB KIRKPATRICK is the author of 1969: The Year Everything Changed (Skyhorse Publishing), Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (St. Martin’s Griffin) and Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn History of an All-Star Shortstop (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press). He also edited The Quotable Sixties, and his creative writing has been published by Aethlon and Slow Trains.

As an editor for more than a decade, he has published such titles as Mark Oliver Everett’s Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Hemingway’s Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, G. Franco and Gwen Romagnolis’ Italy, the Romagnoli Way, Linda Cohn’s Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, Phil Pepe’s The...more ROB KIRKPATRICK is the author of 1969: The Year Everything Changed (Skyhorse Publishing), Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (St. Martin’s Griffin) and Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn History of an All-Star Shortstop (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press). He also edited The Quotable Sixties, and his creative writing has been published by Aethlon and Slow Trains.

As an editor for more than a decade, he has published such titles as Mark Oliver Everett’s Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Hemingway’s Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, G. Franco and Gwen Romagnolis’ Italy, the Romagnoli Way, Linda Cohn’s Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, Phil Pepe’s The Ballad of Billy and George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, Vincent Cannato’s The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, Mark K. Updegrove’s Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, Alex Storozynski’s The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, Timothy M. Gay’s Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, John Pahigian’s The Ultimate Minor League Road Trip and 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out, Sean Lahman’s The Pro Football Historical Abstract, Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon’s Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, & Eerie Events, and The Devil’s Diaries. He also conceived of and published multivolume reference sets including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.

Rob received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and his PhD. from Binghamton University. He is graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute and also spent a summer studying at the FAMU in Prague. He taught writing and literature courses on the college level for four years and currently is a Senior Editor with Thomas Dunne Books. In his “free time,” he enjoys yoga and plays on the Bridgeport Orators Vintage Base Ball team. Rob lives in Rye, New York.

Rob Kirkpatrick is represented by Joy Tutela of the David Black Literary Agency.

Contact Rob at rob@robkirkpatrick.com.(less)

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Average rating: 3.56 · 73 ratings · 26 reviews · 41 distinct works

	1969: The Year Everything Changed 335 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen 350 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Kobe Bryant: Slam Dunk Champion 420 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen the Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen 375 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: NASCAR Road Racer 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sammy Sosa, Home Run Hitter / Bateador de Home Runs 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	The Quotable Sixties 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Sammy Sosa, Home Run Hitter/Bateador de Home Runs 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Bob Cousy 300 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	Grant Hill: Basketball All-Star 200 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating: