Charles Leerhsen

Author and Journalist

Charles Leerhsen is author of the New York Times bestseller Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty. He has written for Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Money He has been an editor at SI, People and Us Weekly, and spent 11 years at Newsweek, where as a senior writer he covered sports, entertainment, family stories and breaking news.