About the Author

DAVE KINDRED has reported and written for newspapers and magazines for forty-five years. He has been a Washington correspondent, sports columnist, and general-interest columnist. His work has won the Red Smith Award, sports journalism's highest honor, as well as a National Headliner award for general-interest columns. Kindred's stories have been anthologized in the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series. He is the author of eight books, including, most recently, "Sound and Fury," the dual biography of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell.

Reviews

"[Kindred] brings passion, insight, empathy, and a critical eye--as well as great access to Post reporters and management, including Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, David Broder, and Dana Priest--to this completely engrossing look at the decline of a great newspaper.... Sad and delightful at the same time."
"--Booklist, " starred review

"A fine piece of writing and reporting."
"--The Atlantic"

"Maybe it's only a newspaper, but "Morning Miracle "is one of those wistful love stories filled with as much foreboding as tenderness."
--Frank Deford, NPR commentator, "Morning Edition"

"This is a book about reporting and reporters. The best reporter involved in it is the one writing it. Through his talent, his wit, and his uncommon humanity, Dave Kindred demonstrates a love for journalism as a job, as a craft, and, above all, as a calling. In fact, he loves it more than it probably deserves to be loved anymore."
--Charles P. Pierce, author of "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of The Free "

"There's always some guy in the newsroom who knows the real story."
--Roger Ebert

"Kindred's book is the miracle, making this old "New York Times" man wish he had spent at least one shining moment in the heartbreaking romance of the "Washington Post"."
--Robert Lipsyte, former "New York Times" sports columnist and author of "An Accidental Sportswriter"

"Dave Kindred combines a deep love of daily journalism with a sports writer's narrative skill to tell a powerful story of one newspaper struggling to keep its trademark standards and values intact into the Internet era. If the time comes for the final obit to be written for print-on-paper newspapers, Kindred proves that he's the guy who should write it."
--Bill Kovach, former "New York Times" Washington Bureau Chief