Don Pierson

Background

Don Pierson was born in 1944.

Career

Don Pierson has been a professional football columnist of the Chicago Tribune newspaper since 1993. Pierson also assisted former Chicago Bear’s football coach Mike Ditka in writing his autobiography. With Jonathan Daniel, Pierson wrote two works reflecting on the highly successful Chicago Bear teams of 1985-86 and 1986-87.

Achievements

• Sports writer Don Pierson focuses on football in his books. He is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, where he writes on a column on professional football. Though his debut volume, The Trojans: Southern California Football, was compared unfavorably to another book on the same subject that was published the same year, Pierson’s titles for children have earned more enthusiastic reviews. Pierson achieved better recognition for two sports biographies he wrote for Children’s Press’s Sports Stars series.

Works

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• book

  • Ditka: An Autobiography

    (The coach of the Chicago Bears describes their championsh...)

    1986
  • Terry Bradshaw, Super Bowl quarterback

    (A biography of the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steeler...)

    1982
  • Renaldo Nehemiah: The bionic hurdler

    (Examines the record-setting career in running hurdles of ...)

    1980
  • The Trojans: Southern California Football. 1974
  • Super Season: The Year to Remember 1985-86 Chicago Bears 1986
  • Super Season II: Going for Two in a Row-1986-87 Chicago Bears 1987

Connections

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Jonathan Daniel