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James Zug (born 1969) is an American writer. He is the author of six books.
| A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.(November 2010) |
James Zug (born 1969) is an American writer. He is the author of six books.
He studied history at Dartmouth and earned a masters in nonfiction writing from Columbia. He has written for numerous national magazines and newspapers, as well as for publications in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He has written for The Daily Beast and had a weekly blog on squash for Vanity Fair's online edition. A former reader at The Paris Review, he was the executive editor at Squash Magazine.
Zug has written an obituary on a South African communist; a review of a travel book on Siberia; a magazine article on the last player of an obscure racquet sport; an essay on Quaker education; an appreciation for Doris Lessing's forgotten first novel; and an interview with a groundhog handler in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Run to the Roar is about a coach who has overcome tremendous adversity to lead his team to the all-time collegiate record for consecutive win streaks.
His fiction has appeared in the anthology Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction By 51 DC Guys (Paycock Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0-931181-27-6. He also appeared in South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid (Ohio University, 2000) ISBN 978-0-89680-213-1.
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