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Cal Fussman is a New York Times bestselling author and a writer-at-large for Esquire Magazine.
As a writer for Esquire, GQ, and The Washington Post Sunday Magazine, he has transformed oral history into an art form, conducting probing interviews with many of the icons who have shaped the last half-century of world history: Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Jack Welch, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Woody Allen, and Barbara Walters. The Austin Chronicle has described Fussman's interviewing skills as "peerless."
In the field of sports, Fussman has written for Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine, profiling Muhammad Ali, Pelé, Yao Ming, Serena Williams, Sugar Ray Leonard, and John Wooden. Fussman has hit a knuckleball thrown by hall-of-famer Phil Niekro, served as a ringside boxing announcer in Las Vegas, and stepped into the ring with then undefeated world champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez.
In the culinary world, Fussman has served as sommelier atop of the World Trade Center, as a celebrity judge on The Next Food Network Star, and has won the James Beard award, the food industry's highest literary honor. When Fussman entered the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue, he received nearly perfect scores, and judge Clive Cussler declared his fire-roasted apples “better than sex.”
Born in Brooklyn, Fussman spent ten years traveling around the world, swimming over an 18-foot Tiger shark, rolling around with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, and searching for gold in the Amazon.
Fussman now lives with his wife—whom he met while on his journey to discover Brazil’s most beautiful beach—and children in Los Angeles, where he spends every morning eating breakfast with Larry King.
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