CALHOUN COMMUNITY COLLEGE 15th Annual Writers’ Conference featuring sportswriter & author Jeremy Schaap author of CINDERELLA MAN, a New York Times bestseller and TRIUMPH: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics An ESPN reporter since 1996, Jeremy Schaap is a correspondent for E:60, the host of ESPN Radio’s The Sporting Life and a frequent contributor to Outside the Lines, NFL Countdown and College Gameday. His reports, interviews and commentaries are regularly featured on SportsCenter. Schaap has won multiple national Sports Emmy Awards and many other honors for his work, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award, in 2012, and a National Headliner Award, in 2007. He is the author of Cinderella Man, a New York Times bestseller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics. In December 2013, Disney secured the movie rights to Triumph and enlisted Schaap for a consult- ing role on the film. His best-known stories at ESPN include a Bobby Fischer profile, which earned him the national Sports Emmy Award for writing, an award named for his father Dick Schaap, and an investigation that took him to Serbia in search of a basketball player accused of a brutal assault, which earned him the national Sports Emmy Award for journalism. In addition to his contributions for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, Schaap’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Time, The Wall Street Journal and Parade.
Monday, October 19, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Private Wine & Cheese Reception $50 (only 75 tickets available) at 7:00 p.m. Writers' Conference For more information, both at the Jackson Center in Huntsville call 256-306-2713
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Writers' Conference at the Princess Theatre in Decatur