Her first book, “Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters’’ (1995, Doubleday) was a ground-breaking expose named one of the “Top 100 Sports Books of All Time’’ by Sports Illustrated and one of the “Top 50 Sports Books of All Time’’ by the Guardian. Poe Award from the White House Correspondents Association for her four-part series about wounded soldiers, "War Without End.’' Her sports columns and features earned 13 Associated Press Sports Editors Awards, the National Headliner Award, the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Journalism Award, and the prestigious Edgar A. She covered every major sporting event from the Super Bowl and the World Series to the Olympics and championship fights. Joan was a pioneer in sports journalism as one of the first female sports columnists in the country.
She takes readers on a question to understand the seemingly indefinable phenomenon called team chemistry. Her newest book, "Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry'' (Little, Brown, 2020), is also her most ambitious. She was a pioneer in sports journalism, becoming one of the first female sports columnists in the country.
She was born in the Bronx, grew up in New Jersey, went to high school and college in Florida and ended up in her favorite city, San Francisco. Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author of five books.
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