Keith O’Brien is a former reporter for the Boston Globe, a freelance writer, and the author of a forthcoming book on high school basketball.
His work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Boston Magazine, Runner's World, the Dallas Morning News, and Oxford American, the Southern Magazine of Good Writing. And he has also contributed to several National Public Radio shows, including Here & Now, Weekend America, and Only a Game.
O'Brien often tells his wife that he is not a word guy, but evidence suggests otherwise. In 2009, he won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for a Boston Globe story that he and a colleague wrote about the deaths of two girls in a fast-moving fire. O'Brien has written about the big. His coverage of Hurricane Katrina kept him in New Orleans off and on for a year. And he also loves to write about the small, like his award-winning story about a homeless man whose death went almost unnoticed.
O'Brien graduated from Northwestern University in 1995 with a degree in history and now lives in New Orleans with his wife and two sons. His first book, which chronicles one season in Kentucky high school basketball, is being published by St. Martin's Press.
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