About The Author
LIPSYTE, ROBERT
Robert Lipsyte was born on January 16, 1938 in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1957 and almost immediately began his writing career with the New York Times as a copyboy and latera sports reporter. Mr. Lipsyte has also worked for the New York Post,CBS-TV as a sports essayist for Sunday Morning, NBC-TV as a sports correspondent, PBS-TV as host of the program "The Eleventh Hour", and as a journalism teacher and radio commentator.
Mr. Lipsyte has written several books from an edited collection of his sports columns, to a biography of Muhammad Ali, to young adult fiction. Robert Lipsyte's works of fiction for young people are usually about young people who through work and ethical standards grow into responsible, productive citizens. They also usually portray a realistic view of sports in the lives of everyday people.
In The Contender (1967), his first noteworthy young adult novel, Mr. Lipsyte drew on his experiences as a sports reporter and combined them with his philosophy about the role of sports in the everyday lives of everyday people. Other novels Mr. Lipsyte has written include One Fat Summer, Summer Rules, The Summerboy, Jack and Jill, and The Brave (a sequel to The Contender).
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