H. G. Bissinger

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H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He was born November 1, 1954, in New York City, New York. In 1987, while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his story on transgressions of Justice in the Philadelphia Court system. He is also the author of the article "Shattered Glass," featured in the magazine Vanity Fair, where he is a contributing editor; the article was later adapted for the 2003 film Shattered Glass.

He is perhaps best known for his book Friday Night Lights, which documents the 1988 season of the football team of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. This work went on to become a successful movie, which was released in October 2004; a television series inspired by the book and the movie debuted on NBC on October 3, 2006.

Bissinger was educated at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, The University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chief editor of the university paper, and Harvard University. He has written two books in addition to Friday Night Lights: Prayer for the City (1998) and Three Nights in August (2005), the latter of which chronicles a series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs through the perspective of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.