Bob Katz is the author of several books, including the novel Third and Long, winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association Popular Fiction award, Elaine's Circle, a non-fiction account of a dramatic episode in the rural Alaska classroom of an heroic teacher, the novel Hot Air, about a mystical South America revolutionary on a speaking tour of US college campuses, The Whistleblower, a nonfiction exploration of a college basketball referee's struggle to keep the game fair, and EZ and the Intangibles, a novel for middle readers.His journalism and commentary have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Newsday, Slate, Spy, and many other outlets.
