Fred Waitzkin
Fred Waitzkin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1943. When he was a teenager he wavered between wanting to spend his life as a fisherman, Afro Cuban drummer, or novelist. He went to Kenyon College and did graduate study at New York University. His work has appeared in
Esquire,
New York magazine, the
New York Times Sunday Magazine, the
New York Times Book Review,
Outside,
Sports Illustrated,
Forbes, the
Huffington Post, and the
Daily Beast, among other publications. His memoir,
Searching for Bobby Fischer, was made into a major motion picture released in 1993. His other books are
Mortal Games,
The Last Marlin, and
The Dream Merchant. Recently, he has completed an original screenplay,
The Rave. Waitzkin lives in Manhattan with his wife, Bonnie, and has two children, Josh and Katya, and two grandsons, Jack and Charlie. He spends as much time as possible on the bridge of his old boat,
The Ebb Tide, trolling baits off distant islands with his family.
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