Daniel Christopher Washburn (born October 31, 1973, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, named one of the best books of 2014 by The Financial Times. ^[1] Washburn is represented by the New York-based literary agent Zoe Pagnamenta. ^[2]

Washburn has written for Slate, ^[3] Financial Times Weekend Magazine, ^[4] The Atlantic, ^[5] Foreign Policy, ^[6] Golf World, ^[7] Golf Digest, ^[8] ESPN.com, ^[9] and other publications.

Washburn's work was featured in the 2008 book, Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On, ^[10] and the 2013 anthology Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China. ^[11]

From 2002 to 2011, Washburn was based in Shanghai, China, ^[12] where he was known for his various websites. ^[13] He is founding editor of Shanghaiist, part of the Gothamist network of city websites. ^[14]

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia. He won the Georgia Sports Writers Association's top prize in outdoors writing four years in a row. In 2001, he was named Georgia's top sports columnist. ^[15]

Washburn is currently Chief Content Officer at Asia Society in New York City. ^[16] He lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. ^[17]

Personal

Washburn married Bliss Kershaw in 2006. He grew up in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Elizabethtown College.

References

External links

• Washburn's official site
• Archive of Washburn's Sporting Life columns for The Times
• Archive of Washburn's On the Line columns for The Times