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John Fox

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John Fox, a Harvard Ph.D. anthropologist, has contributed commentary to Vermont Public Radio and written for Smithsonian, Outside, and Salon, among other publications. In 2010 he was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship. He lives in Boston.

Fox's book, The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game will be published May 15 by Harper Perennial. He lives in Boston.

Advance praise for The Ball:
“Anyone who has ever thrown, caught, bounced, hit (or whiffed) a ball will mightily enjoy John Fox’s stories of where all these balls came from and why, from our earliest days, they have been such an integral part of the very fun that makes us human.”

- Frank DeFord, NPR Commentator and author of The Old Ball Game

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BOUNCE to Premiere at SXSW

After three-plus years of production, with director Jerome Thelia and crew shooting all over the world and pulling countless all-nighters in the editing room, I’m thrilled to say that our documentary, BOUNCE: How the Ball Taught the World to Play, will have its world premiere next month at SXSW! I can still remember the day in the late summer of 2011 when Jerome and David McLain, old friends and t