Rick Pitino is the author of the bestseller Success Is a Choice. A renowned coach in the NBA and college basketball, Pitino was the head coach of the 1996 NCAA champions, the University of Kentucky Wildcats, and the basketball coach at Providence College. He went on to coach both the NBA's Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks. A popular motivational speaker, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Bill Reynolds, a sports columnist for the Providence Journal, has written or coauthored five other books.