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.