Pride of the Lions: The Biography of Joe Paterno
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Pride of the Lions: The Biography of Joe Paterno
By (Author) Frank Fitzpatrick
Triumph Books
Triumph Books
7th November 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
American football
History of sport
Autobiography: sport
796.332092
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 27mm
576g
Description
Joe Paterno has scaled the heights of his profession, winning more than 400 games, a pair of national championships and nationwide respect for the program he built and sustained. In his mid-eighties now, he has vowed to continue with coaching, excited by the prospect of another promising team, and another autumn in Happy Valley. In this exciting new biography of a coaching icon, Frank Fitzpatrick, author of The Lion in Autumn, chronicles the life and career of the winningest coach in Division 1 football history.
Author Bio
Frank Fitzpatrick is the author of three other books, including And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game that Changed American Sports and The Lion in Autumn: A Season with Joe Paterno and Penn State Football. A longtime sportswriter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, he was a finalist for a 2001 Pulitzer Prize and has won numerous local and national awards. He lives in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
