Michael Leahy is the author of Hard Lessons and When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback, which was described by GQ Magazine as "the best sports book of the year...easily the most fully formed portrait of Jordan ever written and one of the best sports books in recent memory." His award-winning career has included thirteen years as a writer for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine. Leahy's 2005 Washington Post Magazine story about a California sperm donor won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for best magazine story of the year. His stories have been selected four times for the annual Best American Sports Writing anthologies. He lives outside Washington D.C.
"The Last Innocents is a great American story. Baseball in the southern California sun, Maury Wills stealing, Vin Scully narrating, life spinning and sweeping like a Koufax curveball toward the future--the tableau could not be richer for a writer as evocative as Michael Leahy." -- David Maraniss, author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Basball's Last Hero"In an excavation as deep and probing as his splendid book on Michael Jordan, the prodigiously talented Michael Leahy sheds a revealing light on what now seems like an ancient era in baseball." -- Mark Kram, author of the PEN Literary Award-winning Like Any Other Day"To read Michael Leahy's well-crafted, resolutely human The Last Innocents is to feel the anger that welled up inside the Dodgers of the era...Mr. Leahy thrives as he describes how the Dodgers navigated this strange new world." -- John Schulian, Wall Street Journal"A book that seeks to place the team within a broader historical and cultural context... This is the strength of The Last Innocents, the way it moves beyond the game to the issues underneath." -- Washington Post"The must-read baseball book of this spring and summer so far: The Last Innocents, by Michael Leahy..." -- Mike Vaccaro, New York Post"Brilliantly reported and undeniably powerful... I can't count the times reading this book I stopped, looked up, and said 'Holy shit, ' and long before reaching the halfway mark I was slowing down to savor every word... I can't recommend this book enough...The Last Innocents is an incredible read." -- Jeff Polman, CrookedScoreboard.com"[A] gripping narrative... By using their personal experiences to tell the story of an oft-recounted era of American history, Leahy's book packs an unanticipated jolt of humanness." -- Publishers WeeklyPraise for When Nothing Else Matters: "The best sports book of the year...easily the most fully formed portrait of Jordan ever written." -- GQ"Riveting, myth-shattering." -- Chicago Tribune"Michael Leahy has written a heck of a book....Mr. Leahy combines an unrelenting eye for detail with extraordinary big-picture analysis." -- Washington Times"A gripping behind-the-scenes book...an important corrective to our current celebrity culture." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer"When Nothing Else Matters gives us the best look we are likely to have of Jordan in decline...The result is a richly detailed, anecdote-driven account of one of the most famous men in the world approaching the end of his rope." -- Ron Rapoport, Chicago Sun-Times
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