Don Yaeger

Don Yaeger is an American sports journalist, and author and co-author of almost two dozen books, including some that have been on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Don Yaeger
Don Yaeger
Pen nameDon Yaeger
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Genrenon-fiction, sports, history
Notable works
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History
Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
Website
donyaeger.com

Bio

Don Yaeger resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife and two children. He is an 11-time New York Times Best Selling author with 29 published books. Yaeger is an avid Duke Blue Devil supporter due to his personal relationship with Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski. He is known throughout the sporting world to have interviewed greats like John Wooden, Walter Payton, and Michael Jordan.

Bestselling books

Books that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list:

  1. Under the Tarnished Dome: How Notre Dame Betrayed its Ideals for Football Glory (Simon & Schuster, 1993, with Douglas S Looney, ISBN 0671869507)[1]
  2. Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton (Villard, 2000, with Walter Payton, ISBN 0679463313)[2]
  3. Ya Gotta Believe: My Roller-Coaster Life As a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer (New American Library, 2004, with Tug McGraw, ISBN 0451212584)[3]
  4. It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Lives it Shattered (2007)[4]
  5. I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond (Gotham Books, 2011, with Michael Oher, ISBN 1592406122)[5]
  6. Play it Like You Mean it: Passion, Laughs, and Leadership in the World's Most Beautiful Game (Doubleday, 2011, with Rex Ryan, ISBN 9780385534444)
  7. Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went From Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur (Portfolio/Penguin, 2011, with Ryan Blair, ISBN 9781591844037)
  8. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution (Sentinel, 2013, ISBN 9781595231031)
  9. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History (Sentinel, 2015, with Brian Kilmeade, ISBN 1591848067)[6]

Other books

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References

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