John Valenti

About

Nine-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Swee'pea, The Story of Lloyd Daniels and Other Playground Basketball Legends [Michael Kesend Publishing, 1990; re-issued by Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books, 2016] . . . National first-place winner Associated Press Sports Editors [APSE] Enterprise reporting (1996) and APSE Investigative reporting (1997), as well as Society of the Silurians Community Service Award (2004) as columnist for Newsday's "Death on the Road" series , Silurians for Spot News Coverage (2007) for "Death of a Yankee," the plane crash that killed Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle in 2006, and Silurians for Breaking News (2012) . . . Applicant for the 1986 NASA-sponsored Journalist in Space program . . . Appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Good Morning America and NPR . . . Featured appearances in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 Big Shot, based, in part, on the Newsday investigation I led that resulted in the federal fraud conviction of NHL New York Islanders owner John Spano, and in the award-winning documentary about former NBA player Lloyd Daniels called The Legend of Swee'pea . . . Currently working on submissions for my first novel, a crime story titled For Nothing is Hidden, and in the process of writing my second novel . . .