Michael Bamberger

About the Author

Michael Bamberger was born in Patchogue, New York, in 1960. After college he became a reporter, first for the Vineyard Gazette (on Martha’s Vineyard), later for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and since 1995 he has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the author of three other acclaimed books on golf, including This Golfing Life, To the Linksland, and PGA Tour star Davis Love’s autobiography Every Shot I Take, which he ghostwrote. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, and many anthologies, including the Best American Sportswriting annual. He lives in Philadelphia.