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Larry Tye is an American non-fiction author and journalist best known for his 2009 ''New York Times'' bestselling〔http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/bestseller/besthardnonfiction.html?scp=1&sq=July%205,%202009%20book%20review%20non%20fiction%20bestseller&st=cse〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/bestseller/besthardnonfiction.html?scp=1&sq=July%205,%202009%20book%20review%20non%20fiction%20bestseller&st=cse〕 biography (''Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend'' ), the story of Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige. From 1986 to 2001, Tye worked as a journalist at ''The Boston Globe'', covering medicine, the environment, sports and national news. Before that he covered business and government at ''The Anniston Star'' in Anniston, Alabama, then was the environmental reporter at ''The Courier Journal'' in Louisville, Kentucky. Tye was a (Nieman Fellow ) at Harvard University in 1993 - 1994〔http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/NiemanFellowships/MeetTheFellows/AlumniFellows/ClassOf1994.aspx〕 and has won a series of major newspaper awards, including the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Journalism. Two of Tye's books, one on the Pullman porters and another on electroconvulsive therapy, have been adapted into documentary films.〔http://www.risingfromtherails.com/about_film.html〕〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1052044/〕 Tye latest book, a history of Superman, was published by Random House in June 2012. Tye is currently at work on a biography of Robert Kennedy for Random House. In addition to his non-fiction writing career, Tye is Director of the Boston-based (Health Coverage Fellowship ), which each year trains ten of America's leading medical journalists on how to do a better job covering issues ranging from public health to mental health to insuring the uninsured. ==Works== * (''Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero'' ), 2012 * (''Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend'' ), 2009 * (''Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy'' ), 2006, co-written with Kitty Dukakis * (''Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class'' ), 2004 * (''Homelands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora'' ), 2001 * (''The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations'' ), 1998 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「Larry Tye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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