Timothy M. Gay is the author of the upcoming, “Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigard, and Hal Boyle” (NAL Hardcover).  He has written two previous books, “Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend” and “Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert:  The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson.” Tim’s essays on politics, public policy, history, and sports history have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, and many other publications.  He is a graduate of GeorgetownUniversity and lives in Vienna,Virginia, with his wife Elizabeth and three children.