Shaun Assael
is an award-winning journalist, author and producer who covers politics, sports and true crime… sometimes all at once.
On Sonny Liston, Non-Sports Sportswriting & Confederate Monuments
A wide-ranging interview on NPR’s Coastline that brings us up to date.
Politico: The Massacre That Spawned The Alt.Right
In 1979, a group of Klansmen joined Nazis to kill five communists in Greensboro, NC. America would never be the same.
Dept. of (my) History
One of my most challenging assignments involved looking into the death of an African American teen found hanged in a small Southern town. What I learned doesn’t square with a new documentary about his death.
The reviews are in, and Pariah, Showtime’s documentary adaptation of my book, The Murder of Sonny Liston, is a hit. You can see it on Showtime, and watch the trailer here.
Best Sports Book
The Boston Globe
A thrilling mystery.
Leave it to Liston to emerge as its larger-than-life anti-hero.”
Nick Pileggi
author of Wiseguy and Casino
As tough and pounding
as its subject.”
Robert Lipsyte
author of The Contender and An Accidental Sportswriter
