Richard Sandomir

Richard Sandomir is a obituary writer for the New York Times. He wrote about sports and television; he is the author of several books including Bald Like Me: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Baldman and The Englightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything.

He obtained his degree from Queens College. His wife, Griffin Miller, is an artist and writer.

Sandomir was a freelance writer and focused his work on sports for a number of publications which include: The Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated and Sport magazine. He also worked for Sports Inc. as a staff writer, a business reporter for New York Newsday, a staff writer for the Stamford Advocate, and a business writer for Financial World magazine.

He worked for The New York Times as the TV sports and business reporter from April 1991 to 2016.