My newest book was published in October 2010 by Alfred A. Knopf—NATIVE AMERICAN SON: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe. On Thorpeblog (http://jimthorpeblog.blogspot.com) I report on my fascinating journey of writing this biography. • "A gentle person, intelligent and funny, with many flaws, Jim Thorpe was not a complicated man. But what happened to him was."