Michael Leahy is the author of The Last Innocents, When Nothing Else Matters and Hard Lessons.
GQ Magazine called When Nothing Else Matters “the best sports book of the year…easily the most fully formed portrait of Jordan ever written and one of the best sports books in recent memory."
His award-winning career has included 13 years as a writer for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine.
Along the way, he has written about subjects as wide-ranging as presidential politics, rural poverty, obesity in the American South, malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, the Army’s recruiting efforts amid the specter of the Iraq war, corporate scandals, and his mother’s struggles with Alzheimer's disease.
Leahy's 2005 Washington Post Magazine story about a California sperm donor won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for best magazine story of the year.
His stories have been selected four times for the annual Best American Sports Writing anthologies. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the collection annually features the 25 best sports stories in the country.
Leahy is a graduate of Yale University.
