Andrew Maraniss – New York Times Best-Selling Author and Vanderbilt University Special Projects Coordinator
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Not many people can hold down both of their dream jobs. Andrew is the best-selling author of “Inside
Strong” chronicling Perry Wallace’s collision of race and sports when breaking the color barrier in SEC
basketball. Andrew returned to his alma mater at Vanderbilt University Special Projects coordinator.
The son of Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss, Andrew has more than stepped out of his
father’s shadow with several more critically acclaimed books on the 1936 Olympics and the 1976 U.S.
Women’s Olympic basketball journey. Enjoy his stories of some of Nashville’s most intriguing sports
figures. AMONG THE TOPICS: HOW A COLLEGE PAPER CHANGED HIS LIFE FOREVER, THAT ONE YEAR
WITH THE DEVIL RAYS, THE INVENTION OF THE HIGH FIVE AND HOW HE MET HIS WIFE.