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 Pierce during a 2009 taping of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! | |
| Born | Charles Patrick Pierce December 28, 1953 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | sportswriter, political blogger, liberal pundit, author, and game show panelist. |
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| Years active | 1970s-present |
| Children | 3 [1] |
Charles Patrick Pierce [2] (born December 28, 1953) is an American sportswriter, political blogger, liberal pundit, [3] author, and game show panelist. [4]
Pierce was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. [1] He graduated from St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, [5] and from Marquette University in Journalism ('75). [6] [1] He attended graduate school at Boston College for two days. [1]
Pierce's first job was as a forest ranger for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [7] He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Blizzard of 1978. [8] In the 1980s and '90, he was a staff reporter for the Boston Phoenix and, later, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald . [6]
Pierce is currently the lead political blogger for Esquire , a position he has held since September 2011. [9] He also wrote for ESPN's Grantland. [10] [11] He has also written for The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Tribune , the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel , Sports Illustrated , The National Sports Daily , GQ , and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman.
Pierce makes appearances on radio as a regular contributor to NPR programs Only A Game and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! . Recently Pierce has begun making weekly appearances on the Stephanie Miller Show . He represented the Globe on several occasions on ESPN's Around the Horn and often co-hosts with Bob Ryan on NESN's Globe 10.0.
Pierce has written four books: [7]
Pierce was a 1996 National Magazine Award finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease, "In the Country of My Disease." [1] He was awarded third place in the Pro Basketball Writers Association Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. [1]
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