Andrew Maraniss: podcast appearances and interviews

Andrew Maraniss is an American author known for his works that explore sports, civil rights, and personal stories. His notable book, Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the south, chronicles the experiences of Perry Wallace, the first African-American to play college basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference at Vanderbilt University during the 1960s. The book achieved recognition by reaching the New York Times best-seller list in both the sports and civil rights categories for four months, and it received the 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award alongside a Special Recognition Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards Foundation. Maraniss attended Vanderbilt University in 1992 on a Fred Russell-Grantland Rice Scholarship for Sports Journalism and was awarded the school's Charles Foster Alexander Award for excellence in journalism that same year. He was inducted into the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame in 2016 and was designated Vanderbilt's Writer-in-Residence in 2017. The success of Strong Inside shifted his focus from a career in public relations to full-time authorship. Maraniss has since published additional books, including Games of Deception (2019), Singled Out (2021), and Inaugural Ballers (2022). He is affiliated with Vanderbilt University and is the son of David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and associate editor for The Washington Post.