| LC control no. | n 50028068 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3560.E48 |
| Personal name heading | Jenkins, Dan |
| Located | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1928-12-02 |
| Death date | 2019-03-07 |
| Place of birth | Fort Worth (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Fort Worth (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Sports journalism Creative writing |
| Affiliation | Texas Christian University |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Sportswriters |
| Found in | His Sports illustrated's the best 18 golf holes in America, 1966. His Dead solid perfect, 1986: t.p. (Dan Jenkins) facing t.p. (list of books) p. 243 (native of Fort Worth, Tex.; lives in Manhattan; senior writer for Sports illustrated) CA, v. 111 (Jenkins, Dan (Thomas B.); b. 12/2/29 in Fort Worth, Tex.) Sports makes you type faster, 2018: ECIP title page (Dan Jenkins) Data View (Jenkins, Dan; author of: Baja Oklahoma, Dead Solid Perfect, Semi-Tough, The Best 18 Golf Holes in America) Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 21, 2018 (Dan Jenkins (born December 2, 1929) is an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for Sports Illustrated. He attended Texas Christian University (TCU). Jenkins has worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated, where among other things he covered the 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1971 versions of the college football Game of the Century. In 1985 he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time, although he maintains a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine. Jenkins now lives in Fort Worth with his family) Gale Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series in Encyclopedia.com, viewed Mar. 21, 2018 (Jenkins, Dan 1929- ; Dan Thomas B. Jenkins ; born December 2, 1929, in Fort Worth, TX ; popular golf and football writer at Sports Illustrated for more than two decades. Widely appreciated for his sense of humor and strongly expressed personal opinions, Jenkins has been compared to such noted American humorists and satirists as H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain) Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 8, 2019 (Dan Jenkins; died March 7, 2019; American author and sportswriter who often wrote for Sports Illustrated) New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 11, 2019 (in obituary published Mar. 8: Dan Jenkins; b. Dan Thomas Jenkins, Dec. 2, 1928, Fort Worth, although many sources list the year as 1929; d. there Thursday [Mar. 7, 2019], aged 90; sportswriter whose rollicking irreverence enlivened Sports illustrated's pages for nearly 25 years and animated several novels, including Semi-tough, a sendup of the steroidal appetites, attitudes, and hype in pro football that became a classic of sports lit) |
| Associated language | eng |
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