Stefan Fatsis

Stefan Fatsis (/ˈstɛfənˈfætsɪs/ STEF-ən FAT-siss; born April 1, 1963) is an American author and journalist. He regularly appears as a guest on National Public Radio's All Things Considered daily radio news program^[1] and as a panelist on Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen . He is a former staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal .^[2]

Fatsis grew up in Pelham, New York. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 with a degree in American civilization. He was a staff writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian as an undergraduate. From 1985 to 1994 he was a reporter for The Associated Press in Athens, Greece; Philadelphia; Boston; and New York. He wrote about sports for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2006.

Fatsis is the author of three books: Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland (1995); Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001), about the subculture of tournament Scrabble , in which Fatsis immersed himself as a player; and A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL (2008). That book was published in paperback with the abbreviated title A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL (2009). Fatsis trained as a placekicker and spent the summer of 2006 as a member of the Denver Broncos during the team's training camp. Similarly, he has written that he "embedded at Merriam as a lexicographer-in-training and drafted or identified more than 100 potential entries" for the firm's dictionary.^[3]

Fatsis's work also appears in several anthologies: Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time (April 2010), The Final Four of Everything (2009), Anatomy of Baseball (2008), The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2 (2008) and The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything (2007). He also writes or has written for The New York Times , the New York Times's defunct Play magazine, Sports Illustrated, SI.com, Slate, The Atlantic , The New Republic.com, Deadspin, Defector Media, and other publications.

He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, former All Things Considered co-host Melissa Block, and their daughter, Chloe Fatsis, who is also a tournament Scrabble player.^[4]

• Stefan Fatsis's website
• Stefan Fatsis on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
• Stefan Fatsis's profile page (National Scrabble Association)
• Stefan Fatsis Scrabble tournament results at cross-tables.com
• Lindsay, Drew. "Stefan Fatsis: Inside a Player's Mind", Washingtonian, June 1, 2008.

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