David Harris is the author of ten books-including The Geniusand his widely acclaimed study of the professional football business,* The League *-and a former contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone. He has been a Forty Niners fan since he was ten and first crossed paths w...

David Harris is the author of ten books-including The Geniusand his widely acclaimed study of the professional football business,* The League *-and a former contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone. He has been a Forty Niners fan since he was ten and first crossed paths with Bill Walsh as a Stanford student in the 1960s. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.