A Spanish scholar who taught for more than four decades at Amherst College, he waited, along with the composer, 32 years for “Life Is a Dream” to be staged.
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Andrew Maraniss delivers a home run with ‘Singled Out’
New biography on Major League Baseball’s first openly gay player is already a hit
March 15, 2021 7:00 AM Doug Moe
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Andrew Maraniss is the author of a new biography on Glenn Burke, Major League Baseball s first openly gay player.
Unearthing a sports story that lends itself to book-length narrative nonfiction and involves a significant social issue isn’t easy.
Madison native Andrew Maraniss had already done it twice. His first book, “Strong Inside” a prize-wining biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference was followed by “Games of Deception,” an account of the first United States Olympic basketball team, which played in Nazi Germany in 1936.