Wayne Coffey is an award-winning writer for the New York Daily News and the author of more than three dozen books, including Winning Sounds Like This (Crown/Three Rivers), a critically acclaimed chronicle of the season he spent with the women's basketball team at Gallaudet University, the world's only college for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Among his previous works is the pseudonymously written When Your Parent Drinks Too Much (Facts On File/Warner), which was named a most outstanding nonfiction book of the year by both the New York Public Library and the American Library Association.
A 20-year veteran of the Daily News, Coffey has traveled the world in search of compelling stories and been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as one of the premier sports feature writers in the nation. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Writer, Parade, GQ, Redbook and Yankee magazine, among other periodicals.
Once he was going to replace Mickey Mantle in centerfield for the New York Yankees, but became a writer instead. He lives with his bride, Denise Willi, and their three children in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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