Doug Merlino Biography
Doug Merlino is a writer and journalist from the United States. Merlino has written for Slate, Wired, Men’s Journal, the Budapest Business Journal, and the Seattle Times, among others. For the PBS show Frontline/World, he covered post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda.
Doug Merlino Age
He was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, the Washington, United States of America.
Doug Merlino Education
Merlino attended Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington, where he grew up. He earned graduate degrees in journalism and international affairs from the University of California, Berkeley, after studying government at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles.
Doug Merlino Wife
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
Doug Merlino Career
He worked as an editor for the Budapest Business Journal. He is married and now resides in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Merlino has written for Slate, Wired, Men’s Journal, the Budapest Business Journal, and the Seattle Times, among others. For the PBS show Frontline/World, he covered post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda. The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White, Merlino’s first book, was released in January 2011. The factual book relates the narrative of a basketball team that Merlino was a member of when he was 14 years old in 1986. The squad, an experiment in integration, blended affluent white players from Merlino’s private school with African-American students from Seattle’s Central Area.
Merlino discovered some years later that one of his African-American teammates, Tyrell Johnson, had been murdered and dismembered. This motivated him to chase down the surviving guys and learn what happened to them and how they saw their teammates. They include a hedge fund manager, a Pentecostal pastor, a prosecutor, a cocaine addict who is regularly incarcerated, a winery, and a street hustler. The book that resulted relates the narrative of these individuals while also focusing on the changing dynamics of race and class, manhood, education, and gentrification over the last thirty years. Many of the team’s players and coaches met in January 2011 for a televised panel discussion to coincide with the publication of the book.
Beast: Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts, Merlino’s second full-length book, was published in 2015. It covers Merlino’s two-year journey following professional MMA fighters from the elite American Top Team in Florida. Jeff Monson, an American anarchist rising to fame on the Russian fight circuit; Daniel Straus, a Cincinnati native fighting his way toward a title shot after a stint in prison; Steve Mocco, an NCAA champion wrestler and Olympian attempting to make the transition to cage fighting; and Mirsad Bektic, a Bosnian refugee and one of the sport’s top prospects, are among those profiled. No Holds Barred and the New York Times work Review both complimented the work for its harsh realism.
Doug Merlino Awards
Merlino received the 2011 Washington State Book Award in Biography/Memoir for The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White.
Doug Merlino Net Worth
Doug has an estimated net worth of 300,000 dollars.
