Jack Barry Ludwig is a former Canadian novelist, short story writer and sportswriter.
Education
Born and raised in the Jewish Canadian community of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ludwig was educated at the University of Manitoba, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1944, and the University of California, Los Angeles, earning his Doctor of Philosophy in 1953.
Career
He remained a resident of the United States for most of his adult life, holding teaching positions at institutions such as the University of Minnesota and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ludwig"s novels include, and Above Ground, a thinly veiled response to his portrayal in Herzog, was later reprinted as part of McClelland & Stewart"s New Canadian Library series.
He also published numerous short stories in literary magazines, although he never published a collection of his short stories in book form.
He was most highly regarded for his journalism, however, concentrating almost exclusively on sportswriting following the publication of Hockey Night in Moscow in 1972. He was the subject of a chapter in Graeme Gibson"s 1973 non-fiction work Eleven Canadian Novelists.