Jeff Coplon

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Jeff Coplon (born 1951, in Schenectady, New York) is an American journalist and author.

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After eight years as a daily newspaper reporter, including two years at the Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel (1974-1976), culminating in a stint with the Kansas City Times, he went on to co-write (or “ghost”) 11 autobiographies. These include works with Cher and Bill Parcells, along with three New York Times best-sellers: Return with Honor (with Capt. Scott O’Grady, 1995); My Story (with Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, 1996); and My Father’s Daughter (with Tina Sinatra, 2000). He also co-wrote, with Betty Mahmoody, For the Love of a Child (1992), the internationally best-selling[citation needed] sequel to Not Without My Daughter.

Coplon’s solo work includes a non-fictional treatment of rodeo bull riding (Gold Buckle, HarperCollins West, 1995) and magazine pieces for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, and Playboy. While his topics vary broadly, he has written frequently regularly about professional basketball, and his work has twice been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing (1991 and 1997).

In a controversial article in The Village Voice in 1988, Coplon analyzed the scholarship surrounding the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s, and argued that allegations of genocide against the Soviet Union were historically dubious and politically motivated as part of a campaign by the Ukrainian nationalist community.

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