Gary M. Pomerantz earned acclaim with his two previous books. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a multigenerational biography of Atlanta and its racial conscience, was named a 1996 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds (2001), the true story of an airplane crash, has been published in Britain, Germany, and China. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Pomerantz worked for nearly two decades as a journalist, first as a sportswriter for the Washington Post and then writing columns, editorials, and special projects for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He later served for two years as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Emory University in Atlanta. He lives today in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their three children.
"Gary Pomerantz's Wilt, 1962 is beautifully written, well
reported, and compelling. But what's so special about this book,
what causes it to linger, is the atmosphere that Pomerantz has
captured through his words, so bittersweet and haunting. You love
Wilt Chamberlain. You feel the aura of his isolation as he towered
above the rest of us in life, and you wish more than ever he was
still around because of his very individuality." -H. G. "Buzz"
Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights
"In his undeniable excellence and egotism, Wilt Chamberlain was
America itself, inspiring worship, ambivalence, and downright awe."
-Philadelphia Inquirer
"Genius is in the details, and Gary Pomerantz's Wilt, 1962
proves that." -John Feinstein, author of A Season on the
Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled
"Meticulously researched and superbly crafted, Wilt, 1962
revisits and vividly re-creates a seminal but overlooked moment in
American sports history. On that transformative evening in Hershey,
Pennsylvania, Wilt Chamberlain scored one hundred points and staked
a black man's claim to the city game. In Gary Pomerantz's deft
possession-by-possession retelling, Chamberlain soars again. The
gangly, uncompromising seven-footer who always seemed too big for
the uniform he inhabited thunders back to life." -Jane Leavy,
author of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
"Wilt, 1962 is not only a lively sports story about the
record-setting performance of a larger-than-life athlete, it is
also a wonderful chronicle of urban and social history, replete
with colorful characters and situations from a bygone era of
professional basketball, when the game changed from being dominated
by white stars to being dominated by black ones." -Gerald L. Early,
author of This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the
1960s
"In this age of instant everything, few people have any idea who
Wilt Chamberlain really was and what he meant to sports. Gary
Pomerantz shows us. In Wilt, 1962 he puts us courtside for
one of the greatest unexamined moments in sports history, the night
Wilt scored one hundred points. In a sweet return to his
sportswriting roots, Pomerantz gives us Wilt in his realm, his rise
to prominence and dominance, set against the backdrop of the NBA's
coming of age. It's all irresistible." -Michael Wilbon, cohost of
ESPN's Pardon the Interruption
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