Richard Ben Cramer

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Richard Ben Cramer is an American-Jewish journalist and writer. Born on June 14, 1950, he was raised in Rochester, NY and attended Johns Hopkins University earning a bachelor's degree in the Liberal Arts. He later went on to earn a masters degree at Columbia University. Cramer has worked as a journalist at several well known publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Esquire Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1979 for reports from the Middle East. His work as a political reporter culminated in "What It Takes" about the 1988 Presidential election which is considered to be the seminal piece on presidential electoral politics. His next book, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life was a New York Times bestseller in 2000. He is an avid New York Yankees fan and lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his daughter. He is working on a new biography on baseball star Alex Rodriguez.

[edit] Books Authored

• Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid]] (1991)
• Bob Dole (1994)
• What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1998)
• Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (2000)
• What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? A Remembrance (2002)
• How Israel Lost: the four questions (2004)