Franz Lidz
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| Born | Franz Ira Lidz September 24, 1951 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, memoirist, American professional basketball executive |
| Notable works |
Unstrung Heroes (1991) Ghosty Men (2003) Fairway To Hell (2008) |
| Spouse | Maggie Lidz (1976-present) |
| Children | Gogo, Daisy Daisy |
Franz Lidz (born September 24, 1951) is an American writer, journalist and pro basketball executive.
He is a columnist for Smithsonian and a vice president at Palace Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Detroit Pistons and The Palace arena. He was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio. a correspondent for Slate,WSJ.,GQ,Sports Illustrated,The Wall Street Journal,The New York Observer,Men's Journal,AARP the Magazine,Philadelphia Magazine,Philadelphia Inquirer,Golf Magazine,Golf Digest and has written for the New York Times since 1982, on travel, TV, film and theater. His work is widely anthologized and includes the childhood memoir Unstrung Heroes, the urban history Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers and the "crypto-memoir" Fairway To Hell.
Lidz was born in Manhattan, to Sidney, an electronics engineer who designed the first transistorized portable tape recorder (the Steelman Transitape). His father gave him early exposure to authors like Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugène Ionesco.
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