Larry Tye

Larry Tye is an American non-fiction author and journalist known for his 2016 biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon. Tye's previous work includes the 2009 biography Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, the story of Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige.
From 1986 to 2001, Tye worked as a journalist at The Boston Globe, covering medicine, the environment, sports and national news. Before that he covered business and government at The Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, then was the environmental reporter at The Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky.
Tye was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993–1994 and has won a series of major newspaper awards, including the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Journalism.
Two of Tye's books, one on the Pullman porters and another on electroconvulsive therapy, have been adapted into documentary films.
Tye additionally is director of the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship, which each year trains 10 American medical journalists on better covering issues in this field.

• 2010 Seymour Medal for Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
• 2009 Casey Award for Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

• "Larry Tye Wins Seymour Medal for "Satchel"". Society for American Baseball Research. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. 
• "Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year". Spitball. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.