Warren St. John

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Warren St. John is a reporter for The New York Times and has written for The New Yorker, Slate, the New York Observer, and Wired.

St. John is the author of the National Bestseller Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania. The book explores the phenomenon of sports fandom and chronicles the season St. John spent following Alabama football fans, particularly those who faithfully drove to games in RVs.

St. John's 2007 article for the New York Times about a group of refugee youth soccer players living near Atlanta, called "The Fugees: Adjusting to America; Outcasts United," was optioned for a motion picture by Universal Studios.[1] A book based on the article is also forthcoming from Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House.

St. John was born in Birmingham, Alabama and attended The Altamont School. He lives in New York, where he went to college at Columbia University. St. John met Bear Bryant as a child on October 17, 1982. He also attended Bryant's funeral.

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