O'Brien is the New York Times bestselling author of Charlie Hustle, Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, and Outside Shot. He has won the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography; has been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports writing; and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, NPR, and This American Life. A native of Ohio, he lives in New Hampshire. His latest book is "Heartland."
Awards: PEN Literary Award, Winner of the 2025 PEN America award for best biography; winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Awards; finalist PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting; longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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