Keith O'Brien

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About The Author

Keith O’Brien is the New York Times bestselling author of Charlie Hustle, Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, and Outside Shot. He has won the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography; has been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports writing; and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, NPR, and This American Life. A native of Ohio, he lives in New Hampshire.

Books by Keith O'Brien

Heartland

A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird

By Keith O'Brien
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the New York Times bestselling author of Charlie Hustle and Fly Girls comes one of America’s greatest sports stories: the improbable rise of Larry Bird and the Indiana State Sycamores.
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Catching the Sky
By Colten Moore
With Keith O'Brien
Discover the true “uplifting, exhilarating, tragic and triumphant” (The Dallas Morning News) story of the Moore brothers’ heartbreaking experience at the Aspen Winter X Games from the man who lived it as he struggled to move on from tragedy, defeat the odds, honor his family, and win go...
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