James Zug
James Zug is an American writer. He is the author of six books.
His fiction has appeared in the anthology Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction By 51 DC Guys . He also appeared in South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid .
Early life and education
Zug was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1969. He studied at Dartmouth College, where he captained the squash team, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University.Career
Zug has written extensively on sports, culture, and history for publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Fast Company, Outside, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, and Tin House. He is a longtime senior writer for Squash Magazine and chairs the US Squash Hall of Fame Committee.He is the author of several books, including Run to the Roar, a history of the legendary squash program at Trinity College, for which Tom Wolfe contributed the foreword. Zug has been a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and has written extensively for magazines and literary outlets. He also maintained a long-running blog for Vanity Fair.
His 2003 book, Squash: A History of the Game published by Scribner and Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear.