Thomas Boswell, a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Rice University, is also a Senior Fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. A former Washington Post writer and editor, he has been a columnist for the Post since 1986 and was named Best National Columnist by the Associated Press Managing Editors in 1998. He was the recipient of the 2005 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for his reporting on legal matters and is co-author of The Supreme Court Disunited: The Politics, Personalities and Processes of the Rehnquist Court (Johns Hopkins University Press). A graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, he lives in Austin with his wife and three children.
What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.Thomas Boswell
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech – a slightly elevated and concentrated form.Thomas Boswell
