David Murray is the author of several books, including Soccer Dad and An Effort to Understand: Hearing One Another (and Ourselves) in a Nation Cracked in Half.
David is an award-winning journalist whose writing on sports and other subjects has appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
He is also editor and publisher of Vital Speeches of the Day, one of the world’s oldest continuously published magazines, and founder and executive director of the Professional Speechwriters Association. David writes daily on communication issues at Writing-Boots.com, and lives with his wife and daughter in Chicago.
The son of two writers, Murray grew up in Hudson, Ohio, and studied English at Kent State University before moving to Chicago to make his own writing life. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Cristie Bosch, and daughter, Scout Murray.