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Terry's interests: Favorite authors: Jon Hassler, Pat Conroy, Richard Russo, Terry Kay, Garrison Keillor, Joseph Heller, Herman
Wouk, Dan Jenkins, Sinclair Lewis, John R. Tunis, Clair Bee, Mark Harris, Damon Runyon, David Maraniss, Stephen Ambrose, David
Von Drehle, Dave Kindred, David McCullough, Tom Zeiler, H. Allen Smith, Pierre Berton, Roy MacGregor, Adrian Dater. Favorite music: Steven Curtis Chapman, Twila Paris, Kelli O'Hara, Linda Eder,
Michael Cavanaugh, John Mellencamp, The Who, Traffic, Heart, Bonnie Raitt, Barenaked Ladies, Dixie Chicks, Harry Connick
Jr. Favorite movies: Casablanca, Band of Brothers, Slap Shot,
The Right Stuff, Breaking Away, My Favorite Year, About Schmidt, Bang the Drum Slowly. Favorite television shows: Dick Van Dyke, Corner Gas, Frasier, The Honeymooners, Wings, Seinfeld, McHale's
Navy.
Above: At the Olympic downhill start before the
race, Val D'Isere, France, 1992. Visit thanks to the extraordinary connections of Denver Post skiing and outdoors
writer Charlie Meyers.
Above: Book tour appearance in the hometown of Third
Down and a War to Go heroes Dave Schreiner and Mark Hoskins. |
Terry Frei is a Denver-based journalist, author, and
screenwriter. He is in his second stint at The Denver Post and also has written for the Rocky Mountain News,
The (Portland) Oregonian, and The Sporting News, where his cover stories included pieces
on Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Charles Haley and Shaquille O'Neal. He also was a columnist on ESPN.com. Raised in Eugene, Oregon, where his father was a fixture
on the University of Oregon football staff and the Ducks' head coach for five seasons, Frei moved to Colorado at age 17 and
graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area. He is proud to claim the distinction of being both an Axeman
(South Eugene) and a Farmer (Wheat Ridge). He has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Frei is the author of five books: Playing Piano in
a Brothel (2010), The Witch's Season (2009), '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age (2008),
Third Down and a War to Go (2007), and Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming (2002). He is working on his second
novel. He has written the screenplay adaptations of Third Down and a War to Go and The Witch's Season. He also is collaborating with Patrick Ireland on Ireland's memoirs,
tentatively titled Columbine's Boy in the Window.
Frei is a frequent event speaker, including at
sports- and veterans-oriented functions. He has delivered the John Paul Hammerschmidt Lecture in honor of the World War II
pilot and longtime Congressman; spoken at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, the Wisconsin State Historical Society,
and even at Lambeau Field; and will be a keynote speaker at the World War II Glider Conference in 2010, when
he will appear with many surviving heroes, including Lt. Col. Jim Megellas, the most-decorated officer in the history of the
82nd Airborne. Terry and his wife, Helen,
live in Denver. Terry has four
siblings: David Frei of New York, the
Westminster Kennel Club's director of communications and long-time WKC Dog Show television broadcaster; Judy Kaplan of Beaverton,
Oregon, a Spanish and English-as-a-second-language teacher and community volunteer; Susan Frei Earley of Tulsa, a noted former ballerina and now a company
executive with the renowned Tulsa Ballet, which
performs around the world; and Nancy McCormick of the Chicago law firm Barlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar and Scott.
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