Jane Leavy

Jane Leavy is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created; The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood; and Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy. In 2019, The Big Fella earned her SABR’s Seymour Medal, presented annually to the best book of baseball history or biography. She was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. A former staff writer for the Washington Post, she grew up on Long Island where she pitched briefly and poorly in little league for the Blue Jays of Roslyn Heights. She lives in Washington, DC and Truro, Massachusetts.

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