Dan Washburn

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Dan Washburn
Born (1973-10-31) October 31, 1973 (age 50)
Danville, Pennsylvania
OccupationAuthor, journalist
LanguageEnglish
Nationality American
Alma mater Elizabethtown College
Notable works The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
Spouse Bliss Khaw

Daniel Christopher Washburn (born October 31, 1973, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream , named one of the best books of 2014 by The Financial Times . [1] Washburn is represented by the New York-based literary agent Zoe Pagnamenta. [2]

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Washburn has written for Slate , [3] Financial Times Weekend Magazine , [4] The Atlantic , [5] Foreign Policy , [6] Golf World , [7] Golf Digest , [8] ESPN.com, [9] and other publications.

Washburn's work was featured in the 2008 book, Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On , [10] and the 2013 anthology Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China . [11]

From 2002 to 2011, Washburn was based in Shanghai, China, [12] where he was known for his various websites. [13] He is founding editor of Shanghaiist, part of the Gothamist network of city websites. [14]

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia. He won the Georgia Sports Writers Association's top prize in outdoors writing four years in a row. In 2001, he was named Georgia's top sports columnist. [15]

Washburn is currently Chief Content Officer at Asia Society in New York City. [16] He lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. [17]

Personal

Washburn married Bliss Kershaw in 2006. He grew up in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Elizabethtown College.

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  1. ↑ "Best books of 2014". The Financial Times . Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  2. ↑ "The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency - Client List". The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency. Archived from the original on 2019-05-04. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  3. ↑ "The Forbidden Game". Slate . Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  4. ↑ "Golf's secret boom in Hainan, China". Financial Times Weekend Magazine . Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  5. ↑ "Stories by Dan Washburn". The Atlantic . Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  6. ↑ "China's Golf Obsession". Foreign Policy . Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  7. ↑ "Last Call". Golf World . Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  8. ↑ "Cool When It Counted". Golf Digest . Retrieved 2010-10-14.
  9. ↑ "Archive of Dan Washburn's stories on ESPN.com". ESPN.com . Archived from the original on 2007-11-28. Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  10. ↑ Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On . Retrieved 2010-05-22.
  11. ↑ Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China. ISBN   9881616409.
  12. ↑ "Catch Shanghaiist's Dan Washburn in Hong Kong!". Shanghaiist . Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  13. ↑ "Web Celebs: Go gaga for Shanghai's newest generation of internet celebrities". City Weekend . Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  14. ↑ "Shanghaiist Staff". Shanghaiist . Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  15. ↑ "Dan Washburn's Writing Awards". danwashburn.com . Retrieved 2007-11-29.
  16. ↑ "Our People". Asia Society . Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  17. ↑ "@danwashburn". Twitter . Retrieved 2015-11-11.
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