Bob Greene is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist whose books include Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents; Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen; Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War; Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan; Be True to Your School; and, with his sister, D. G. Fulford, To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come.
As a magazine writer he has been lead columnist for Life and Esquire; as a broadcast journalist he has served as contributing correspondent for ABC News Nightline. For thirty-one years he wrote a syndicated newspaper column based in Chicago, first for the Sun-Times and later for the Tribune. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Op-Ed page.