Larry Tye was a prize-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. An avid baseball fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author ofThe Father of Spin, Home Lands,andRising from the Railsand co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.