KNOXVILLE -- New York Times Best-Selling Author and sports columnist Sally Jenkins will be the keynote speaker at the second annual Don Sproles Memorial Dinner, September 5, 2013, at Knoxville’s Crowne Plaza hotel. The dinner is a fundraiser for Volunteer Ministry Center.
Jenkins will discuss her latest book, Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective.
Tickets are now on sale. The dinner will begin at 7:00 pm and will be $75.00 per person. There is a reception with the author at 6:15 pm and will be $25.00 per person. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. If you are interested, please call Lee Turner at (865) 524-3926 ext.223 or email him at lturner@vmcinc.org.
Sally Jenkins is a columnist and feature writer for the Washington Post and the author of 10 books (four of which were New York Times bestsellers), including Sum It Up with Pat Summitt which reached No.1 in the spring of 2013. She is also the author of The Real All Americans, an account of the Carlisle Indian School's influence on sports in the United States at the turn of the century, and The State of Jones with Harvard professor John Stauffer, the true story of Unionists in Mississippi during the Civil War. Jenkins is a three-time winner of the Associated Press’s Sports Columnist of the Year Award and has also been honored three times by the Society of Professional Journalists as a Columnist of the Year. She is a winner of The Christopher Award, given to media that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit" and in 2005 became the first woman ever inducted in The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. In addition to writing about sports, she covered the events of 9-11, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy for the Washington Post and profiled Sarah Palin from Alaska and Hillary Clinton from Iowa in the 2008 Presidential election. Her work has been featured in GQ, Smithsonian Magazine, and Sports Illustrated, and she has appeared on ESPN, Fox Sports, and NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
