Rescheduled date!
Come listen to New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict talk about his latest book QB: My Life Behind the Spiral at Pequot Library. It is the autobiography of Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young (Houghton Mifflin/October 2016). This free event offers: 30-40 minute author talk, Q & A, book sales/signing, light hors d'oeuvres and wine served.
Jeff Benedict is also a special features writer for Sports Illustrated, and a television and film producer. He has written for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and his stories have been the basis for segments on 60 Minutes,20/20, 48 Hours, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, the NFL Network, HBO Real Sports and theDiscovery Channel. Benedict is a writer and creative consultant for NFL Films on Steve Young: A Football Life, which aired on the NFL Network in the Fall of 2016. He has written fifteen books on topics ranging from violence against women to a deadly E. coli outbreak to the discovery of a 10,000-year-old skeleton in North America.
Benedict has written numerous autobiographies. My Name Used to be Muhammad – the autobiography of a Muslim-turned-Christian – was a Book of the Year finalist in 2013.
Currently, Benedict is writing a biography on Tiger Woods for Simon & Schuster.
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