Weinreb writes book on chess team

Michael Weinreb, a freelancer sportswriter in New York City who left the Beacon Journal in 2000 after five years as a sports writer, has a new book out this month with a long title: The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team.

It’s the story of a year spent with Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow High School chess team as it strives for a national championship.

You can read reviews from the New York Times and Christian Science Montior and a bit about Weinreb himself on his website at
http://www.michaelweinreb.com/

Weinreb attended a graduate program in fiction writing at Boston University after leaving the Beacon Journal. His first book of short stories, Girls, Boys Etc., was published in 2004. He was a staff writer at Newsday until April 2006. He grew up in State College, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State University.

The book, 304 pages, is published by Gotham Books which launched its debut list of books in the winter of 2003. ( ISBN: 1592402615, March 2007, $26.00)