Dave Kindred, author of several books, has been a columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the National Sports Daily, Sporting News, and Golf Digest. He is one of only two writers who have earned sportswriting's three highest honors: the Red Smith Award, the PEN America ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He also has won the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award for outstanding media contributions, as well as a National Headliner Award for general-interest columns. He is a member of The National Sports Media Hall of Fame.
