Stefan Fatsis

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Stefan Fatsis (b. 1963) is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a regular guest on National Public Radio's All Things Considered daily radio news program.

Fatsis is of Greek ancestry; his father was born on the island of Chios. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 with a degree in American Civilization. He was a staff writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian as an undergraduate and is the author of Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland and Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players, about the subculture of tournament Scrabble. He lived in Brooklyn, New York, and as of 2006 lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Melissa Block, and their daughter, Chloe Fatsis.

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