Jay Weiner is an award-winning journalist and author whose writing career spanned sports, politics, public affairs, and higher education. He’s reported on sports business issues, a high-profile U.S. Senate recount, and fifteen Olympic Games. He’s written speeches for a university president and managed the website of a regional Federal Reserve Bank. Weiner is the author of four books, including his latest, “A More Dangerous Game: How a Young Sportswriter met Patty Hearst and Landed in Federal Prison.” He lives and writes in St. Paul, Minnesota.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Through his experiences in socially conscious sportswriting, Patty Hearst’s fugitive run, and his federal incarceration without being convicted of a crime, Jay Weiner surprised and intrigued me in A More Dangerous Game. It’s a powerful and fast-moving account of gaining wisdom the hard way."—Jack El-Hai, author of The Case of the Autographed Corpse and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
