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Daniel Okrent: Author, Journalist, Editor, & Inventor of Fantasy Sports

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DANIEL OKRENT is the award-winning author of six books, including “The Guarded Gate,” and “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011),” which was cited by the American Historical Association as the year’s best book on American history. “Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center” was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. Among his many jobs in publishing, he was corporate editor-at-large at Time Inc., and was the first public editor of the New York Times.

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Daniel Okrent’s 2004 New York Times Column Even More Relevant Today

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  Editor’s Note:  In October 2003, Daniel Okrent was named the first public editor for the New York Times (NYT) following the Jayson Blair...

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