Steve Fiffer has written for the New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, and various other publications. He is the author or coauthor of numerous titles, including Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel: A Memoir of Becoming Whole (Simon & Schuster, 1999) and "Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics!" (Northwestern, 2008), with James A. Baker III.