Jane Leavy

Jane Leavy (born December 26, 1951) is an American former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of the 1990 comic novel Squeeze Play, which was called "the best novel ever written about baseball" by Entertainment Weekly.^[1] She also wrote a best-selling 2002 biography of Sandy Koufax.^[2] She lives in Washington, D.C. She is originally from Roslyn, New York, and graduated from Barnard College in 1974 and Columbia University School of Journalism in 1976. She has a house in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. She has two children, Nick (b. 1985) and Emma (b. 1988) Isakoff.

Her latest book is The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, an extensive chronicle of Mantle's off-field behavior published in 2010. The book is based on interviews she had with the late Yankee slugger.^[3] Excerpts from the book have been published in Sports Illustrated and the New York Daily News. Her new book, “The Big Fella, Babe Ruth and the World He Created,” will be published by Harper on October 16. It was named one of the top ten biographies/memoirs for the fall by “Publishers Weekly.”(ref>https://m.harpercollins.com/9780062380227/the-big-fella</ref>)

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