Michael MacCambridge has written several books, including the critically-acclaimed, award-winning America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation; biographies of the American sportsman Lamar Hunt and Hall of Fame football coach Chuck Noll; as well as The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated magazine. His most recent work is the broad social history The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America.

MacCambridge was the editor of the coffee-table book ESPN SportsCentury, a New York Times bestseller in 1999, and later was a contributing writer to A New Literary History of America. In 2005, he was the creator and editor of the ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, hailed by Sports Illustrated as “the Bible” of the sport.

From 1988-1995, MacCambridge wrote about music, movies and popular culture for The Austin American-Statesman. In addition to his books, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and GQ, as well as Grantland and The Ringer.

From 1997-2015, he was an adjunct instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. The father of two children, Miles and Ella, he now lives in Austin, and serves as an adjunct instructor at the Center for Sports Communication & Media at the University of Texas. He serves as co-chair, along with Sally Jenkins, on the jury of the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting.

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