ABOUT THE AUTHOR - FANS

Larry Olmsted is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author who has published several books and thousands of articles for major newspapers and magazines worldwide over the past 25-plus years. As an undergraduate at Georgetown University he was named a George F. Baker Scholar, and after graduate school at Dartmouth College he was honored as the annual distinguished alumni speaker for the Masters of Arts and Liberal Studies program. He taught non-fiction creative writing to graduate students as a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth.

His last book, Real Food, Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It, was a New York Times hardcover bestseller, an audiobook bestseller, and a bestseller in Canada. It was named to Best Books of the Year lists by People Magazine, Outside Magazine, Apple iBooks and has been republished in several foreign languages. 
In 2018 he gave a high profile TEDx talk, has been a panelist at the South by Southwest festival, and appears frequently on television and radio as an expert guest. Shows include CBS This Morning, ESPN SportsCenter, Inside Edition, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, numerous network news shows and NPR radio.

Olmsted has spent the past five years researching the topic of sports fandom, interviewing professors, scientists, athletes, doctors, mayors, governors, ambassadors, cancer survivors, victims of terrorist attacks, team and league officials, journalists, museum curators, sportscasters and countless fans around the country and around the world. 


His work in sports has taken him to the Super Bowl, Kentucky Derby, British Open, Indy 500 and other marquee sporting events around the globe. He writes very frequently on skiing and golf, has personally set Guinness World Records in both sports, has skied with numerous Olympians including Bode Miller, and played in multiple PGA and Champions Tour Pro-Ams with Major winners including Tom Kite, Geoff Oglivy, Corey Pavin and others. He has also played golf with athletes and coaches from Major League Baseball, the NBA and NFL, and has written profiles on star athletes, including Greg Norman, Cam Newton and Tiger Woods. He was named one of the “10 Most Extreme U.S. Journalists,” by the Society of Professional Journalists and Travel Writer of the Year by the State of Mississippi.

 

Olmsted has been a long-term print columnist for two of America’s three national newspapers, Investor’s Business Daily and USA Today, and has written for many other prominent papers including the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Boston Globe, Denver Post, South China Post, and others. He currently writes one of the most popular digital columns for Forbes, is a regular contributor to USA Today and USAToday.com, and is a longtime contributing editor for Cigar Aficionado magazine. His other magazine work has included Playboy, Popular Science, Outside, Men’s Health, Inc., Worth, American Airlines’ American Way, United Airlines’ Hemispheres, US Airways Magazine, Robb Report, Golf Magazine, Mastercard Luxury, and dozens more.