{"id":2814,"date":"2015-03-31T21:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2015-03-31T21:57:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:57:34","slug":"tunis-john-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/tunis-john-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunis, John Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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John Roberts Tunis, born December 7, 1889, wrote about sports. The son of a Unitarian minister, born in Boston, he graduated from Harvard in 1911, admitting that his interests in college were athletics and theater.<\/p>\n

He studied law at Boston University, served in France during World War I, and then went on to cover sports for such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Collier’s, Harper’s, <\/i>the New Yorker<\/i>, and the Saturday Evening Post<\/i>. He was a broadcast announcer on NBC radio, covering tennis from 1934 to 1942 and the first Wimbledon match sent back to the United States.<\/p>\n

His articles and books for young adults were good stories, but they also dealt with moral questions in sports. His first two juvenile novels, Iron Duke<\/i> (1938) and The Duke Decides<\/i> (1939), feature a Harvard track star who makes the 1936 Olympic team and competes in Hitler’s Berlin.<\/p>\n

Tunis is perhaps best-remembered for his series of nine novels about baseball, starting with The Kid from Tomkinsville<\/i> in 1940.<\/p>\n

This crusading sportswriter died in 1975, but his books are still relevant today.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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