Keith Dunnavant is the author of five books, including best-selling biographies of football icons Paul “Bear” Bryant (Coach) and Bart Starr (America’s Quarterback). Often striking at the collision of sports and culture, his books have been called “fascinating” (The New York Times), “evocative and provocative” (Sports Illustrated), “insightful” (Publishers Weekly) and “definitive” (The Dallas Morning News). In The Missing Ring, he focused on an Alabama football team’s frustrated perfection in an imperfect world. In The Fifty-Year Seduction, he traced television’s manipulation of big-time college football and the rise of the all-powerful NCAA. Deftly straddling the worlds of journalism and entrepreneurship, Dunnavant has founded a series of award-winning magazines through his Atlanta-based company, Solovox Publishing, including the 1990s football title Dunnavant’s Paydirt Illustrated, which leveraged an innovative licensing program with partner television and radio stations across the Southeast. Dunnavant started his career as a teenage sportswriter in Athens, Ala., creating his first job in the business and becoming a regular in Southeastern Conference press boxes before he was old enough to drive. After working his way through the University of Alabama, he distinguished himself as a leading national college football writer and covered a variety of beats, including college basketball, the NFL, and Major League Baseball, for major media brands including The National, the Los Angeles Times, Sport magazine, and Sports inc. magazine. Widely recognized for his authoritative writing about college football, Dunnavant remains in demand as a historian of the sport. He has been utilized as an expert commentator and film consultant on documentaries produced by HBO, ESPN and CBS, is frequently quoted in major media including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and The New York Times, and has been a guest

lecturer about the sport’s rise as a big business at the University of Michigan, one of several schools where The Fifty-Year Seduction has been used as a textbook. Since transitioning out of sportswriting in the 1990s, Dunnavant has spent much of his career in editorial management in New York and Atlanta, directing coverage of everything from national politics to network television and specializing in long-form narrative journalism. One of the rare journalists who has served as a senior-level editor of magazines in three distinct publishing genres—sports, business and general interest—he is a former editor of Adweek Magazines’ Special Report, managing editor of Mediaweek, executive editor of Atlanta magazine, and founding publisher/editor-in-chief of the Solovox titles Dunnavant’s Paydirt Illustrated, Dunnavant’s Speed! Illustrated and South Walton Life. He has been a contributor to several other magazines, covering sports business for BusinessWeek and writing in-depth profiles for Atlanta. A popular after-dinner speaker who has headlined events for civic, alumni and business groups across the Southeast, Dunnavant is a former adjunct professor at the University of Alabama and a former director of the Magazine Association of the Southeast. He has been honored with more than 100 awards for editorial excellence. Dunnavant, who currently publishes the online Solovox titles Crimson Replay and Saturday Rewind, is at work on his sixth book and is producing a documentary film about the integration of Alabama sports.