Michael Leahy
<p>Michael Leahy is the author of <em>Hard Lessons </em>and <em>When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan’s Last Comeback,</em> which was described by <em>GQ Magazine</em> 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 <em>The Washington Post</em> and <em>The Washington Post Magazine</em>. Leahy's 2005 <em>Washington Post Magazine</em> story about a California sperm donor won the Society of Professional Journalists’ <em>Sigma Delta Chi</em> Award for best magazine story of the year. His stories have been selected four times for the annual <em>Best American Sports Writing</em> anthologies. He lives outside Washington D.C.</p>
