Described by one reviewer as "a historian with the soul of a poet," Scott Ellsworthis the* New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game *, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and * The Ground Breaking,his critically acclaimed account of the Tulsa race mas...

Described by one reviewer as "a historian with the soul of a poet," Scott Ellsworthis the* New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game *, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and * The Ground Breaking,his critically acclaimed account of the Tulsa race massacre. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he has written about American history for The New York Times *, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Ann Arbor, where he also teaches at the University of Michigan.