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Frank Deford (born Benjamin Franklin Deford III on December 16, 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American sportswriter and novelist. In addition to his 50-year tenure at ''Sports Illustrated'', where he now holds the title of Senior Contributing Writer, Deford appears weekly on National Public Radio and as Senior Correspondent for ''Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel'' on HBO. He has written 18 books, nine of them novels. A member of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, Deford was six times voted Sportswriter of the Year by the members of that organization, and was twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the ''Washington Journalism Review''. In 2012 he became the first magazine recipient of the Red Smith Award. In 2013 he was presented with the William Allen White Citation for "excellence in journalism" by the University of Kansas and became the first sports journalist ever to receive the National Press Foundation's highest honor, the W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism. Deford's archives are held by the University of Texas, where an annual lecture is presented in his name. He is a long-time advocate for research and treatment of cystic fibrosis. ==Background== After graduation from Princeton in 1962, Deford began his career as a researcher at ''Sports Illustrated.'' In addition to his writing at ''Sports Illustrated'', he was a commentator on CNN and has been a correspondent for HBO's ''Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel'' since 1995; and a regular Wednesday commentator for NPR since 1980. His 1981 novel ''Everybody's All-American'' was named one of ''Sports Illustrated's'' Top 25 Sports Books of All Time and was later made into a film of the same title. However, much of his fiction is set outside of the sports realm. His most recent novel is the acclaimed ''Bliss, Remembered'', a 1930s romance between a pretty young American and the son of a German diplomat; the story is written from the point of view of the woman. He was also the screenwriter on the films ''Trading Hearts'' (1987) and ''Four Minutes'' (2005). In 1989 Deford left ''Sports Illustrated'' and NPR to serve as editor-in-chief of ''The National'', the first daily U.S. sports newspaper. Published daily in tabloid format, it debuted on January 31, 1990 but folded after only 18 months. It was praised for its editorial content, but was a victim of circulation problems. After writing for ''Newsweek'' and ''Vanity Fair'', Deford subsequently returned to ''Sports Illustrated'' as Senior Contributing Writer. Deford served as chairman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation from 1982 until 1999 and remains chairman emeritus. He became a cystic-fibrosis advocate after his daughter Alexandra was diagnosed with the illness in 1972. After she died at 8 on January 19, 1980, he chronicled her life in the memoir ''Alex: The Life of a Child''. The book was made into a movie starring Craig T. Nelson as Deford, Bonnie Bedelia as his wife Carol, and Gennie James as Alex. Deford grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, the oldest of three sons, and attended the Calvert School and Gilman School in Baltimore. He is a graduate of Princeton University and now resides in Westport, Connecticut, with his wife, the former Carol Penner, who had been a fashion model. They have two surviving children: Christian (b. 1969) and Scarlet (b. 1980). Scarlet was adopted as an infant from the Philippines a few months after Alex's death. Deford has two grandchildren; Annabel (b. 2010) and Hunter (b. 2012). Deford met his wife in Delaware and they were married in Newport, Rhode Island in 1965.〔(Deford Speech at CCC )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Deford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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