Charlie Pierce

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Charlie Pierce
Pierce during a 2009 taping of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Born	Charles Patrick Pierce (1953-12-28) December 28, 1953 (age 71) Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	sportswriter, political blogger, liberal pundit, author, and game show panelist.
Alma mater	Marquette University Boston College
Years active	1970s-present
Children	3[1]

Charles Patrick Pierce[2] (born December 28, 1953) is an American sportswriter, political blogger, liberal pundit,[3] author, and game show panelist.[4]

Biography

Pierce was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts,[5] and from Marquette University in Journalism ('75).[6][1] He attended graduate school at Boston College for two days. [1]

Pierce's first job was as a forest ranger for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[7] He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Blizzard of 1978.[8] In the 1980s and '90, he was a staff reporter for the Boston Phoenix and, later, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald.[6]

Pierce is currently the lead political blogger for Esquire, a position he has held since September 2011.[9] He also wrote for ESPN's Grantland.[10][11] He has also written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Sports Illustrated, The National Sports Daily, GQ, and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman.

Pierce makes appearances on radio as a regular contributor to NPR programs Only A Game and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!. Recently Pierce has begun making weekly appearances on the Stephanie Miller Show. He represented the Globe on several occasions on ESPN's Around the Horn and often co-hosts with Bob Ryan on NESN's Globe 10.0.

Publications

Pierce has written four books:[7]

• Sports Guy (2000) ISBN 978-0-306-81005-3
• Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story (2000) ISBN 978-0679452911
• Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything (2006) ISBN 978-0374214449
• Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (2009) ISBN 978-0767926140

Awards

Pierce was a 1996 National Magazine Award finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease, "In the Country of My Disease."[1] He was awarded third place in the Pro Basketball Writers Association Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest.[1]

Controversy

In December 2024, in an article defending the pardon of Hunter Biden, Pierce incorrectly claimed that Neil Bush had been pardoned by his father, George H. W. Bush. The article was later corrected and then retracted.[12][13][14]

References

1. "Charlie Pierce". www.wbur.org.
2. Sports guy : in search of corkball, warroad hockey, hooters golf, Tiger ... Library of Congress Online Catalog. 2001. ISBN 9780306810053. OCLC 45794506. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
3. Pierce, Charles P. (July 15, 2004). "The Liberal State". The Nation.
4. "30 Years of Worcester Magazine". Worcester Magazine. April 27, 2006. Archived from the original on June 23, 2006.
5. Charles P. Pierce (November 26, 2008). "Football, Hold the Stuffing". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
6. "Charles P. Pierce". Charles Pierce.
7. "About the Panelists". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on April 13, 2008.
8. Chet Williamson (February 21, 2008). "30th Anniversary: Blizzard of '78". Worcester Magazine. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008.
9. "Charles P. Pierce Is Coming to The Politics Blog". Esquire. September 12, 2011.
10. The Stupidity (and Sexism) of Baseball's Media Dress Codes
11. Pierce, Charles (June 25, 2018). "The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity". Esquire. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
12. Pierce, Charles (November 3, 2024). "Hunter Biden Isn't the First Presidential Son Caught Up in Controversy. Anybody Remember Neil Bush?". esquire.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2024.
13. Lanum, Nikolas (December 4, 2024). "Esquire deletes false George Bush pardon story after liberal columnist makes major error". foxnews.com.
14. Rumpf, Sarah (December 4, 2024). "Esquire Corrects, Then Retracts, Column Wrongly Claiming George H.W. Bush Pardoned His Son Neil". mediate.com.

External links

• Charlie Pierce on Twitter
• The Politics Blog with Charles P. Pierce
• Charles Pierce at IMDb