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Wikipedia / Thomas Hauser

Thomas C. Hauser (born February 27, 1946) is an American author known for his biographies and novels and writing about boxing.

Biography

Hauser graduated from Mamaroneck High School in 1963, Columbia College in 1967 and Columbia Law School in 1970.

He made his debut as a writer in 1978 with The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice. Horman's wife, Joyce Horman, and his parents, Edmund and Elizabeth Horman, cooperated with Hauser on the book which described both Charle's fate and his family's quest to uncover the truth about his death in Chile in the aftermath of the 1973 coup that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende. The book was adapted as Costa-Gavras's 1982 film Missing, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. A later book by Hauser, Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl (co-authored with Robert Peter Gale), served as the basis for the 1991 television film Chernobyl: The Final Warning, starring Jon Voight and Jason Robards.

In 1981, Hauser published a novel, Ashworth & Palmer, set in a fictional law firm, which was inspired by his experience as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1971 through 1977, following his graduation from Columbia Law School. Later novels recreated the lives of Beethoven, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens.

Hauser also wrote Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, a biography of boxer Muhammad Ali. The book was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1991 he was awarded the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. Subsequently, Ali and Hauser co-authored HEALING: A Journal of Tolerance And Understanding and met with student audiences across the United States to discuss their subject. For their efforts to combat bigotry and prejudice, they were named as co-recipients of the Haviva Reik Award. More recently, Hauser authored Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest.

He also collaborated with golfer Arnold Palmer on a biography entitled Arnold Palmer A Personal Journey published in 1994.

Hauser has written about the sport of boxing for numerous print publications such as the New York Times and the Guardian and various websites such as The Sweet Science, and Boxing Scene. He has been featured in numerous documentaries about the sport including the Academy Award-winning When We Were Kings.

On December 4, 2019, it was announced that Hauser had been chosen by the electors for boxing's highest honor: induction to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the class of 2020.

On eleven occasions, articles written by Hauser have been named "best investigative journalism of the year" by the Boxing Writers Association of America. In 2004, the organization honored him with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism. In 2023, the BWAA bestowed the A.J. Liebling award for Outstanding Boxing Writing upon Hauser, an honor that had been given out only once in the preceding seven years. Hauser is the only person in the 100-year history of the BWAA to have received both the Fleischer and Liebling Awards.

From 2012 through 2020, Hauser was a consultant to HBO Sports. In 2003, at the request of the late Senator John McCain, Hauser testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation regarding the regulation of professional boxing.

Books

  1. General non-fiction

  2. Missing

  3. The Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea

  4. For Our Children (with Frank Macchiarola)

  5. The Family Legal Companion

  6. Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl (with Dr. Robert Gale)

  7. Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey

  8. Confronting America's Moral Crisis (with Frank Macchiarola)

  9. Healing: A Journal of Tolerance and Understanding (with Muhammad Ali)

  10. With This Ring (with Frank Macchiarola)

  11. Thomas Hauser on Sports

  12. Reflections

  13. MY MOTHER and me

  14. Boxing non-fiction

  15. The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing

  16. Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

  17. Muhammad Ali: Memories

  18. Muhammad Ali: In Perspective

  19. Muhammad Ali & Company

  20. A Beautiful Sickness

  21. A Year At The Fights

  22. Brutal Artistry

  23. The View From Ringside

  24. Chaos, Corruption, Courage, and Glory

  25. The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali

  26. I Don't Believe It, But It's True

  27. Knockout (with Vikki LaMotta)

  28. The Greatest Sport of All

  29. The Boxing Scene

  30. An Unforgiving Sport

  31. Boxing Is . . .

  32. Box: The Face of Boxing

  33. The Legend of Muhammad Ali (with Bart Barry)

  34. Winks and Daggers

  35. And the New . . .

  36. Straight Writes and Jabs

  37. Thomas Hauser on Boxing

  38. A Hurting Sport

  39. Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest

  40. There Will Always Be Boxing

  41. Protect Yourself At All Times

  42. A Dangerous Game

  43. Stare down

  44. Broken Dreams

  45. In the Inner Sanctum

  46. The Universal Sport

  47. The Most Honest Sport

  48. Fiction

  49. Ashworth & Palmer

  50. Agatha's Friends

  51. The Beethoven Conspiracy

  52. Hanneman's War

  53. The Fantasy

  54. Dear Hannah

  55. The Hawthorne Group

  56. Mark Twain Remembers

  57. Finding The Princess

  58. Waiting For Carver Boyd

  59. The Final Recollections of Charles Dickens

  60. The Baker's Tale

  61. For children

  62. Martin Bear & Friends

References

  • bio at Thesweetscience.com

  • bio at Fantasticfiction.co.uk