American author and sportswriterFor the American actor, see Daniel H. Jenkins.

Daniel Thomas Jenkins (December 2, 1928 – March 7, 2019) was an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for Sports Illustrated. He was a high-standard amateur golfer who played college golf at Texas Christian University.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Awards and honors
• 4 Books
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life

Jenkins was born in 1928 and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended R. L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University (TCU), where he played on the varsity golf team.

Career

Jenkins worked for many publications including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated, where among other things he covered the 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1971 versions of the college football Game of the Century. In 1985, he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time, although he maintained a monthly column in Golf Digest magazine.

Larry King called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins wrote numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough. His daughter Sally Jenkins is a sports columnist for The Washington Post.

In December 2014, Jenkins published an article in Golf Digest *led "My (Fake) interview with Tiger; or how it plays out in my mind." In the piece, which featured images of a Tiger Woods lookalike in golfing gear, Jenkins mocks Woods's reputation in an imaginary interview with the athlete. Though the piece was clearly marked as parody, the champion golfer requested an apology from the magazine. Woods stated that the piece "fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character **ination."

Awards and honors

• 2012 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
• 2012 World Golf Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Category
• 2013 Red Smith Award
• 2015 Old Tom Morris Award
• 2017 Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism

Books

• Jenkins, Dan (1970). The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate. Simon & Schuster. ISBN:978-0-671-66750-4.
• Jenkins, Dan (1972). Semi-Tough. Atheneum. ASIN:B000OL8MP0.
• Jenkins, Dan (1973). Saturday's America. Berkley Books. ISBN:978-0425023952.
• Jenkins, Dan (1974). Dead Solid Perfect. Atheneum. ISBN:978-0689106200.
• Jenkins, Dan; Shrake, Edwin (1976). Limo: A Novel. Atheneum. ISBN:978-0689107344.
• Jenkins, Dan (September 1, 1981). Baja Oklahoma. Atheneum. ISBN:978-7018982948.
• Jenkins, Dan (October 1, 1984). Life Its Ownself. Simon & Schuster. ISBN:978-0671460242.
• Jenkins, Dan (October 1, 1988). Fast Copy: A Novel. Simon & Schuster. ISBN:978-0671602062.
• Jenkins, Dan (September 1, 1989). You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There. Simon & Schuster. ISBN:978-0671690212.
• Jenkins, Dan (October 15, 1991). You Gotta Play Hurt. Simon & Schuster. ISBN:978-0671683320.
• Jenkins, Dan (September 1, 1993). Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Movies, Food, Foreigners, Teenagers, Football. Anchor. ISBN:978-0385470797.
• Jenkins, Dan (May 1, 1994). Fairways and Greens. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385474252.
• Jenkins, Dan; Stout, Glenn, eds. (November 15, 1995). The Best American Sports Writing 1995. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN:978-0395700709.
• Jenkins, Dan (September 15, 1998). Rude Behavior. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385470001.
• Jenkins, Dan (August 7, 2001). The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist: A Novel. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385497237.
• Jenkins, Dan (May 3, 2005). Slim and None. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385508520.
• Jenkins, Dan (June 3, 2008). The Franchise Babe: A Novel. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385519106.
• Jenkins, Dan (May 5, 2009). Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385519137.
• Jenkins, Dan (March 4, 2014). His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir. Doubleday. ISBN:978-0385532259.
• Jenkins, Dan (January 1, 2017). Stick a Fork in Me: A Novel. Gallery Books. ISBN:978-1507201473.
• Jenkins, Dan (November 11, 2019). The Reunion at Herb's Café. TCU Press. ISBN:978-0875657271.

References

External links

• Dan Jenkins on Golf Digest
• World Golf Hall of Fame Profile
• Podcast with Dan Jenkins in September, 2018