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Full Name
  
Calvin Fussman

Nationality
  
American


Occupation
  
Author, writer

Name
  
Cal Fussman


Known for
  
Esquire's What I've Learned column

Title
  
Writer at Large, Esquire

Awards
  
James Beard Foundation Award, Best Personal Essay, 2011 The New York Times Best Seller list

Books
  
After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes - An Oral History

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Calvin "Cal" Fussman is an American journalist and author. He is a Writer at Large for Esquire magazine, known for the What I've Learned column, where he interviews leaders in various fields, which have included Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Jack Welch, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Woody Allen, Barbara Walters, Pelé, Yao Ming, Serena Williams, John Wooden, and Muhammad Ali.

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Early life

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Cal Fussman was born in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up on Long Island and earned a bachelor's degree at The University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Career

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Fussman started his career as a sportswriter for The Miami Herald and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, then moved to New York, where his work appeared in the magazines Inside Sports and Sports Illustrated. He learned how to interview on trains and buses, when he travelled around the world for 10 years and was constantly in conversation with people from all cultures and walks of life. Fussman's writing during this time and thereafter often revolved around quests.

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Fussman began contributing to Esquire when David M. Granger took over as Editor in Chief in 1997. He became the lead interviewer for the magazine's "What I've Learned" column, in which people who have lived extraordinary lives discuss the wisdom they have accrued. Some the "What I've Learned" column, have reissued in two books titled The Meaning of Life,. The Austin Chronicle has described Fussman's work in this format as "peerless" and "prolific".

Works

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Fussman's story about his experience at Windows on the World won a James Beard Foundation Award for best personal essay in 2011.

Books

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Fussman has authored and co-authored several books, including two listed on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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  • 2007. After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes. ISBN 978-1-933060-18-7
  • 2008. Double or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas’ Legendary Casinos. ISBN 978-0-06-083583-5
  • 2009. My Remarkable Journey. ISBN 978-1-602-86-086-5
  • 2013. Hitmaker: The Man and His Music. ISBN 978-0-446-58518-7
  • Personal life

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    Fussman is married to Gloria Paes, whom he met on a bus on the way to a beach in Brazil. The couple have three children and live in Los Angeles.

    References

    Cal Fussman Wikipedia