David Hirshey

David Hirshey is a book editor and sportswriter. He has been an editor at The New Yorker and Esquire where from 1985 to 1997, he was in charge of the magazine's Dubious Achievement Awards. He is currently Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at HarperCollins publishers in New York City.

In 2010, Hirshey co-authored “The ESPN World Cup Companion: Everything You Need To Know About The Planet’s Biggest Sports Event^[1].“ Hirshey also appeared in Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos, the 2006 documentary about the New York Cosmos soccer team, whom he covered as a beat writer for the New York Daily News. He has written extensively about soccer in various publications including ESPN the Magazine and the New York Times, and used to write a weekly column about soccer on Deadspin.

Books edited by Hirshey

• Phillips, Bill & Michael Dorso (1999), Body For Life, Harper Collins, ISBN 0060193395
• Bruni, Frank (2002), Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush, Harper Collins, ISBN 0066213711
• Leavvy, Jane (2002),Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, Harper Collins, ISBN 0060195339
• Longman, Jere (2002), Among the Heroes United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back, Harper Collins, ISBN 0060099089
• Hersh, Seymour (2004), Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060195916.
• Finkel, Michael (2005), True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, Harper Collins, ISBN 006058047X
• Weiss, Phillip (2005), American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps, Harper Collins, ISBN 0060096861
• Daly, John with Glen Waggoner (2006) My Life in and out of the Rough, Harper Collins, ISBN 0061120626
• Blythe, Will (2006), To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever, Haper Collins, ISBN 006074023X
• Johnson, Marilyn (2006), The Dead Beat, Harper Collins, ISBN 0060758759
• MacGregor, Jeff (2006), Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! a Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR, Harper Collins, ISBN 9780060094713
• Tenet, George (2007) "At The Center of The Storm”
• Ferguson, Craig (2009) American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot”
• Silverman, Sarah (2010) The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee
• Konrad, John & Shroder, Tom (2011) "Fire On The Horizon: The Untold Story Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill", Harper Collins, ISBN 0062063006

Books co-authored by Hirshey

• Bodo, Peter & David Hirshey with Pelé (1977), Pele's New World, Norton, ISBN 0393087581
• Messing, Shep & David Hirshey (1978), The Education of An American Soccer Player, Dodd, Mead and Company, ISBN 0396075681
• Hirshey, David and Roger Bennett (2010) “The ESPN World Cup Companion”

Filmography

• Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) - Performer, as himself.

External links

• David Hirshey is The Closer - Hirshey's regular column on Deadspin
• David Hirshey - Hirshey's appearances on Charlie Rose

References

1. ^ Woitalla, Mike. "Capturing the World Cup spectacle in a book". http://www.socceramerica.com/article/38397/capturing-the-world-cup-spectacle-in-a-book.html. 

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