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terry@terryfrei.com On the heels of his critically acclaimed fact-based novel, Olympic Affair:Hitler's Siren and America's Hero, Terry Frei returned to non-fiction for his seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness. Frei's non-fiction books are Playing Piano in a Brothel; '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age, Third Down and a War to Go, and Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming.
at
age 17, and part of it appeared in the Wheat Ridge (Colo.) High
literary magazine. It was published many years later. Frei and Adrian Dater also
collaborated on Save By Roy. Frei
spent his early years in Eugene, Oregon, where his father, Jerry,
spent 17 years on the University of Oregon football staff, including
as the Ducks' head coach. Jerry Frei, a decorated World War II
fighter pilot, was progressive and ahead of his times on such issues
as integrating his coaching staff and allowing his players freedom
to wear their hair as they liked and participate in campus politics and anti-war protests. In fact, those teams, players, coaches and times became the basis of The Witch's Season.
Terry Frei is a graduate of
Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history
and journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. At CU,
he has served as vice chair of the History Department advisory board and chair of the International Affairs advisory board.
Frei has been named a state's sportswriter of
the year seven times -- four times in Colorado and
three times in Oregon. He has been a writer for the Rocky
Mountain News, the Portland Oregonian, The Sporting
News and The Denver Post. In addition, he was also was a featured ESPN.com hockey columnist
for eight years. At The Sporting News, his stories included major or cover pieces on Jerry Rice,Thurman Thomas, Emmitt Smith, Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Irvin, Richard Dent and Aeneas Williams. He
has covered many Olympic Games, Super Bowls, NBA Finals, NHL
Finals, World Series, Final Fours, major bowl games and high-profile
boxing matches -- all while continuing to enjoy writing
about events both high profile and grassroots. (Credentials from one
of each are below.) Because of his extensive research, interviewing and
writing about the U.S. effort in World War
II, in both European and Pacific theaters, Frei appears at veterans-oriented functions, as shown below.
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