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Jim Gorant

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Shortly after his birth in Brooklyn, New York, Jim's family decamped for the greener pastures of northern New Jersey. Other than the four years when he escaped to college in the distant metropolis of Philadelphia, he’s spent his entire life in the Garden State, where he still lives with his wife and two children.

Jim Gorant's career in magazine publishing began in 1990 with a job at Good Housekeeping and led him to Sports Illustrated, where he is currently a senior editor. In the interim he’s bumbled over seemingly every inch of the vast terrain that exists between those titles, holding staff positions at GQ, Men's Journal, Popular Mechanics, and Power & Motoryacht. In the course of his daily responsibilities at those magazines and durin...more Shortly after his birth in Brooklyn, New York, Jim's family decamped for the greener pastures of northern New Jersey. Other than the four years when he escaped to college in the distant metropolis of Philadelphia, he’s spent his entire life in the Garden State, where he still lives with his wife and two children.

Jim Gorant's career in magazine publishing began in 1990 with a job at Good Housekeeping and led him to Sports Illustrated, where he is currently a senior editor. In the interim he’s bumbled over seemingly every inch of the vast terrain that exists between those titles, holding staff positions at GQ, Men's Journal, Popular Mechanics, and Power & Motoryacht. In the course of his daily responsibilities at those magazines and during two stints as a freelancer, he's fished everywhere from Alaska to Venezuela, snowmobiled 12,000 feet into the Idaho Rockies, dived on the Great Barrier Reef and played golf with honest-to-goodness celebrities. The high point came when he was escorted off the grounds of the All-England Lawn Tennis Club (a.k.a. Wimbledon). On the more serious side, he’s investigated anti-aging strategies, infant vaccinations, and the psychology and response to child abductions.

His writing has appeared in more than three dozen national magazines ranging from Men’s Health, Outside, and Popular Science, to Worth, the Robb Report, and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, among many others. As an editor, he’s tinkered with the scribblings of everyone from Mike Lupica to Dan Quayle and worked on two Sports Illustrated books, Tiger 2.0 and The Golf Book.

Jim's original SI cover story on the dogs of Bad Newz kennels won the Humane Society’s Genesis Award for magazine writing. He is also the recipient of the John Southam Award and of multiple writing awards from both the Golf Writers Association of America and Boating Writers International. Prior to The Lost Dogs , Jim authored Fanatic: 10 Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die , and he is also the co-author of Fit For Golf (with Boris Kuzmic).(less)

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The Wild Card and A Book Review

I must admit it would be delicious if the Yankees caught the Red Sox and won the division just because it would knock the Sox off the perch they've been looking down from all season, and because it would be a stunning turnaround considering the boys in pinstripes were down 14.5 games in July. Ouch. But the truth is, it doesn't much matter anymore because either way (most likely) both teams will... read more »

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Books by Jim Gorant

Average rating: 4.27 · 1,279 ratings · 361 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption 4.29 avg rating — 1,260 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Fanatic: Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wallace: The Underdog Who Conquered a Sport, Saved a Marriage, and Championed a Breed--One Flying Disc at a Time 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Fit for Golf: How a Personalized Conditioning Routine Can Help You Improve Your Score, Hit the Ball Further, and E by Boris Kuzmic, Jim Gorant 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Little Boy Blue: A Puppy's Rescue from Death Row and His Owner's Journey for Truth by Kim Kavin, Jim Gorant (Preface) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope.”
― Jim Gorant, The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption

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