Jackie Robinson and the Integration o...
Scott SimonBiography/Sports 'An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk.' Chicago Tribune 'Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this...
After being raped and seeing her grandmother killed, a Serbian high-school basketball player named Irina Zaric is recruited as a sniper during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. Ambivalent at first about possibly killing innocent people,...
The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds, Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport.The may...
NPR Driveway Moments for Dads: Radio ...
Scott SimonFunny, comforting, and nostalgic—kind of like Dad—DRIVEWAY MOMENTS FOR DADS is over 100 minutes of NPR at its finest. You'll want it for your father and yourself, and for those you know who frequently finds themselves in their dri...
Unforgettable: A Mother and Son's Fin...
Scott Simon"I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?" UNFORGETTABLE is a son's spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love b...
Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and t...
Scott SimonI'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU. We never stop learning from our mothers, do we? Scott Simon sat beside his once gorgeous and vivacious mother, holding her hand, comforting her, and reminiscing about ...