Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment

or that special day

The center who played with the New York Rangers

the moments of sheer joy and exhilaration that were also part and parcel of her journey

July 1947 SPORT Cover (Eddie Dyer, St. Louis Cardinals, Joe Cronin, Boston Red Sox) Finish:7x9 Unframed Print Krakauer received an Academy AwardThe July 1947 cover of the SPORT Magazine would feature two of baseball's top managers of the 1940s, the St. Louis Cardinals' Eddie Dyer and Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox posing together at the 1947 All Star game. SPORT Magazine, which ran from 1946 to 2000, celebrated what its editors accurately anticipated would be the coming explosion of interest in professional and amateur sport in post war North America. Read more about the history of SPORT