"This is my secret weapon: this large, red-brick building is the Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan." Scott Ellsworth, author of The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph (Little, Brown, 2015), which was named the winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, gives a tour of his writing space at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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