Michael Leahy Biography
Michael Leahy is an award-winning novelist and writer for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine in the United States. His most recent nonfiction book, The Last Innocents, is his most well-known work.
Michael Leahy Age
Leahy was born on January 28, 1953, in Newark, New Jersey, United States of America. He is 70 years old as of January 2023.
Michael Leahy Family
Leahy was born in the city of Newark, New Jersey. He moved to a Los Angeles suburb with his family when he was 10 years old. He is a Yale University graduate.
Michael Leahy Wife
Leahy resides with his wife Jane in a suburb of Washington, D.C. they have one child together.
Michael Leahy Career
His most recent nonfiction book, The Last Innocents, examines the turbulent political and social change of the 1960s through the prism of the renowned Los Angeles Dodgers. Leahy has also received praise for his 2004 book When Nothing Else Matters, which follows basketball legend Michael Jordan’s final NBA comeback. Leahy’s work has also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing collections in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Hard Lessons, his first novel, explores the lives of six Beverly Hills High School students from the class of 1986 and deals with the obstacles and worries of adolescent life in modern America.
Leahy, a feature writer recognized for his intimate depictions of characters, covers a wide range of themes, from politics to social issues to sports. He has written for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Washington Post Magazine, as well as TV Guide, Playboy Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. Hard Lessons (1988), When Nothing Else Matters (2004), and The Last Innocents (2016) are Leahy’s nonfiction publications. Along the way, Leahy has covered presidential politics, rural poverty, obesity in the South, malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa, the housecleaner dubbed Elian Gonzalez’s fisherman-savior, the United States Army’s recruiting efforts amid the specter of the Iraq war, corporate scandals, a nudist camp, his mother’s Alzheimer’s struggles, and the playing comeback of basketball legend Michael Jordan.
Michael Leahy Net Worth
Leahy has an estimate net worth of 2 million dollars.