The Classic Mantle

Buzz Bissinger is the author of two classic works of sports journalism, Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August, and of A Prayer for the City, about Philadelphia politics. In 1987 he won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting while at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Marvin E. Newman's work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the International Center for Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has been the national president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and authored or coauthored eight books on photography.