For 25 years, Bill Littlefield hosted and wrote for NPR's weekly sports magazine program, Only A Game, which he helped to create in 1993. His commentaries enlivened Morning Edition and appeared in The Boston Globe and various other papers and magazines. Littlefield is the author of seven books, including two novels, Prospect (Houghton Mifflin) and The Circus in the Woods (Houghton Mifflin.) He was a professor in the English Department at Curry College for 39 years. He is currently working with the Emerson Prison Initiative to help incarcerated men earn college degrees.
