Dan Washburn

Daniel Christopher Washburn (born October 31, 1973, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and journalist based in Shanghai, China since 2002. He is currently researching a book about the development of golf in China, entitled Par for China.^[1] Washburn is represented by the New York-based literary agent Zoe Pagnamenta.^[2]

In September 2010, Publishers Marketplace reported Washburn had signed with Oxford, England-based Oneworld Publications to publish Par for China.^[3]

Washburn has written for Slate,^[4] Financial Times Weekend Magazine,^[5] Foreign Policy,^[6] Golf World,^[7] Golf Digest,^[8] GOOD,^[9] ESPN.com,^[10] Budget Travel,^[11] The Economist Group's Business China,^[12] Baseball America,^[13] Outside's GO,^[14] and the South China Morning Post.^[15]

Washburn's work was featured in the 2008 book Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, edited by Zachary Michael Jack.^[16]

Washburn is also known in Shanghai for his various websites.^[17] He is founding editor of Shanghaiist, part of the Gothamist network of city websites.^[18]

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia. He won the Georgia Sports Writers Association's top prize in outdoors writing four years in a row. In 2001, he was named Georgia's top sports columnist.^[19]

Personal

Washburn married Bliss Khaw in 2006. He grew up in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Elizabethtown College.

References

1. ^ "Golf in China: All growing, all new, all raw". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=3118871. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
2. ^ "The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency - Client List". The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency. http://www.zpagency.com/. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
3. ^ "Publishers Lunch Deluxe: Lunch Weekly for Monday, September 13". Publishers Marketplace. http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/archives/006891.php. Retrieved 2010-10-14. 
4. ^ "The Forbidden Game". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2246914/pagenum/all/. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
5. ^ "Golf’s secret boom in Hainan, China". Financial Times Weekend Magazine. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/22639c8a-ef65-11de-86c4-00144feab49a.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
6. ^ "China's Golf Obsession". Foreign Policy. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/24/chinas_golf_obsession. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
7. ^ "Last Call". Golf World. http://www.golfdigest.com/golfworld/columnists/2009/11/golf_china_1109. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
8. ^ "Cool When It Counted". Golf Digest. http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-tours-news/2010-10/golf-asian-amateur-washburn. Retrieved 2010-10-14. 
9. ^ "Greener Pastures". GOOD. http://www.good.is/post/greener-pastures/. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
10. ^ "Archive of Dan Washburn's stories on ESPN.com". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=dan_washburn. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
11. ^ "My Shanghai Is Better Than Yours". Budget Travel. http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800942.html. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
12. ^ "Still in the rough: The success of golf tournaments in China belies the tepid state of the country’s golf business". The Economist Group. http://home.danwashburn.com/writings/still_in_the_rough.php. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
13. ^ "MLB Invests In China's Baseball Growth". Baseball America. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/050511worldcupchina.html. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
14. ^ "Go Travel > Shanghai". Outside's GO. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20071009110315/http://www.outsidego.com/2007_01/travel_shanghai.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
15. ^ "In search of baseball's Yao Ming: China takes a swing at America's Pastime". South China Morning Post. http://home.danwashburn.com/writings/in_search_of_baseballs_yao_min.php. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
16. ^ Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On. GOOD. http://books.google.com/books?id=ezDG4aTNIeoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
17. ^ "Web Celebs: Go gaga for Shanghai's newest generation of internet celebrities". City Weekend. http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/cw-magazine/city-feature/sh-web-celebs/. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 
18. ^ "Shanghaiist Staff". Shanghaiist. http://shanghaiist.com/about/staff.php#shang_dan. Retrieved 2008-11-12. 
19. ^ "Dan Washburn's Writing Awards". danwashburn.com. http://danwashburn.com/sportinglife/awards/. Retrieved 2007-11-29. 

External links

• Washburn's official site
• Par for China - Washburn's site about golf in China
• Shanghaiist - Washburn's city website
• Archive of Washburn's Sporting Life columns for The Times
• Archive of Washburn's On the Line columns for The Times

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