Harvey Araton

Harvey Araton is a longtime sports journalist who has written for four New York newspapers, including working twentyfive years at the New York Times, where he wrote the Sports of the Times column. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books. Driving Mr. Yogi was a New York Times bestseller. When the Garden Was Eden was made into an ESPN 30for30 documentary, which he coproduced. He is the author of Cold Type, a novel, published in 2014. Araton was nominated by the Times for the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. He was a media inductee to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. He graduated from the City University of New York in 1975. He lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife. They have two adult sons.