PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing [SEP] conferred by
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
The PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing is awarded by the PEN American Center to honor "a nonfiction book about sports." The award was established in 2010 and is awarded to a title that is "biographical, investigative, historical, or analytical" in nature. Judges have included Robert Lipsyte, Tim O'Brien, and Susan Orlean.
Presented in conjunction is the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. This award is given to an American or
"The Best American Sports Writing anthologies", published by Houghton Mifflin Company, which annually features the 25 best sports stories in the nation.
- Leahy won the 2016 Casey Award for "The Last Innocents". The book was a nominee for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award For Literary Sports Writing.
- "The Last Innocents" was nominated as a finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
Personal.
Leahy resides with his wife in a suburb of Washington D.C.
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