Andrew Maraniss stud­ied his­to­ry at Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty and as a recip­i­ent of the Fred Rus­sell-Grant­land Rice sports­writ­ing schol­ar­ship, earned the school’s Alexan­der Award for excel­lence in jour­nal­ism. He then worked for five years in Vanderbilt’s ath­let­ic depart­ment as the asso­ciate direc­tor of media rela­tions, deal­ing pri­mar­i­ly with the men’s bas­ket­ball team. The son of Pulitzer Prize-win­ning jour­nal­ist and best-sell­ing author David Maraniss and trail­blaz­ing envi­ron­men­tal­ist Lin­da Maraniss, Andrew was born in Madi­son, Wis­con­sin, grew up in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. and Austin, Texas and now lives in Brent­wood, Ten­nessee, with his wife Ali­son, and their two young chil­dren. His first book for adults, Strong Inside: Per­ry Wal­lace and the Col­li­sion of Race and Sports in the South, was a New York Times non­fic­tion bestseller.

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