Paul Pioneer Press and later The Philadelphia Inquirer. His journalism career began at the Ledger-Star in Norfolk Va.

)Buzz graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1972 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. (Read Nancy Franklin's October 8 New Yorker review of the series here. Friday Night Lights also serves as the inspiration for the television series of the same name now in its second season on NBC. Two of his works were made into the critically acclaimed films Friday Night Lights and Shattered Glass three more are in active development.

He is the author of three highly acclaimed nonfiction books: Friday Night Lights A Prayer for the City and Three Nights in August.Buzz has been a reporter for some of the nation's most prestigious newspapers a magazine writer with published work in Vanity Fair The New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated and a co-producer and writer for the ABC television drama NYPD Blue. He also was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. A native of New York City Buzz is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize the Livingston Award the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award and the National Headliners Award among others. Buzz Bissinger is among the nation's most honored and distinguished writers. Fascinating, humane ( The New Yorker) and alive with detail and insight, A Prayer for the City describes the rare combination of political courage and optimism that may be the only hope for America's urban centers.H.G. It is also the story of citizens in crisis: a woman fighting ceaselessly to give her great-grandchildren a better life, a father of six who may lose his job at the Navy Shipyard, and a policy analyst whose experiences as a crime victim tempt her to abandon her job and ideals. A Prayer for the City is acclaimed journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader willing to go to any length for the sake of his city: take unions head on, personally lobby President Clinton to save 10,000 defense jobs, or wrestle Smiley the Pig on Hot Dog Day-all the while bearing in mind the eternal fickleness of constituents whose favor may hinge on a missed garbage pick-up or an overzealous meter maid. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, the heart-wrenching and hilarious true story of an American city on its knees and a man who will do anything to save it.

A Prayer for the City by H.G. Bissinger