Books īissinger speaks about his book The Mosquito Bowl to Paul Wells in 2023īissinger is perhaps best known for his book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, which documents the 1988 season of the football team of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. He briefly hosted a daily radio talk show on WPHT Philadelphia 1210 with Steve Martorano. On October 8, 2012, Bissinger endorsed Mitt Romney for president. īissinger also served as a columnist at The Daily Beast. In 2008, Bissinger wrote 'The Throwback,' an online sports column for The New York Times. His magazine work has also appeared in The New York Times and Sports Illustrated. The 11,000-word article was months in the making and kept heavily under wraps until it was released on the magazine's website on June 1.īissinger's article for Vanity Fair, 'Gone with the Wind' (August 2007), about the saga of 2006 Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro, has been optioned by Universal Pictures. Bissinger had exclusive access to Jenner both immediately before and after her cosmetic surgery. The article was adapted for the 2003 film of the same name.īissinger's July 2015 Vanity Fair cover story 'Call Me Caitlyn,' on the transition of former Olympic decathlete, businessperson, and television personality Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner star of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians and I Am Cait, with photographs by Annie Leibovitz, was one of the biggest international scoops in years. In 1998 his article 'Shattered Glass,' an exposé of the career of New Republic writer Stephen Glass, was published in the magazine Vanity Fair, where he is a contributing editor. In 1987, while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Bissinger won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his story on corruption in the Philadelphia court system.

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