Charlie Pierce
Charles Patrick Pierce is an American sportswriter, political blogger, liberal pundit, author, and game show panelist.
Biography
Pierce was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from St. John's [High School (Massachusetts)|St. John's High School] in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and from Marquette University in Journalism. He attended graduate school at Boston College for two days.Pierce's first job was as a forest ranger for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Northeastern [United States blizzard of 1978|Blizzard of 1978]. In the 1980s and '90, he was a staff reporter for the Boston Phoenix and, later, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald.
Pierce is currently the lead political blogger for Esquire, a position he has held since September 2011. He also wrote for ESPN's Grantland. 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:- Sports Guy
- Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story
- Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything
- ''Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free''