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 now 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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