Prize-winning author, journalist, and magazine editor. Documentary script writer. Author of nine nonfiction books and articles published a variety of newspapers and magazines, including Humanities Magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated. New revised and updated HEARTS OF LIONS: THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BICYCLE RACING, released by the University of Nebraska Press in May 2020. Extensive experience on all aspects of writing and editing from serving as working as a journalist and magazine editor in Washington, D.C.New feature in Humanities Magazine, "Meet Major Taylor, the Fastest Man on Two Wheels: In the Guilded Age, he was a trailblazing international superstar of cycling, Winter 2022 issue, https:///neh.gov/article/meet-major-taylor-fastest-man-on-two-wheels. Another Feature, "How Ivermectin Saved Louis Gossett Jr. from Dying of Covid-19: When Academy Award-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. walked out of an Atlanta hospital sick with COVID, he reached out to Florida Keys Dr. Bruce Boros, who would save his life," in Substack/Rescuehttps://www.neh.gov/article/korea-and-thirty-eighth-parallelNew award in October 2017 from IRMA! Yahoo!! (International Regional Magazine Association), Historic Feature category for Mountain Home Magazine cover story, AIRPLANE WARS: Finger Lakes Aviation Pioneer Glenn Curtiss Battled the Wright Brothers for Supremacy of the Skies, Mountain Home Magazine: http://mountainhomemag.com/people-life/airplane-wars/.A judge for IRMA! Yahoo! wrote: Fascinating to learn about an aviation pioneer I'm sure many people were not aware of!" Author of THE FAST TIMES OF ALBERT CHAMPION: FROM RECORD-SETTING RACER TO DASHING TYCOON, AN UNTOLD STORY OF SPEED, SUCCEED, AND BETRAYAL (Prometheus Books, 2014), Also coauthored with Bill Driscoll the paperback, PEAK BUSINESS PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE: AN ACE FIGHTER PILOT SHOWS HOW TO MAKE GREAT DECISIONS IN THE HEAT OF BUSINESS BATTLES (Skyhorse Press, paperback 2014), Foreword by Senator John McCain. A business book on how to deal with Tension, Anxiety, and Stress at work so that under severe pressure you can still perform at your best. Presently engaged as speaker, author, and editorial consultant. Keynote speaker at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame Inductions Banquet, and other venues.May be contacted by email, pjnye@msn.com.
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