John Helyar

John Helyar is an American journalist and author. He is a graduate of Boston University. He is married to The Wall Street Journal’s Betsy Morris. Helyar has worked for The [Wall Street Journal], Fortune magazine, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine and Bloomberg News. He is the author of the 1994 book, Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball.
His reporting with Bryan Burrough on RJR Nabisco earned them the 1989 Gerald [Loeb Award] for Deadline and/or Beat Writing. They turned their research into the book Barbarians at the Gate: [The Fall of RJR Nabisco], which was made into an HBO Emmy award-winning a film of the same title.