Andy Dabilis

Andy Dabilis is a journalist from Boston now living in Athens, Greece, where he writes for The National Herald, Greek Reporter and Southeast European Times, with an emphasis on covering Greece's economic crisis.

He was graduated from Chelmsford, Mass. High School in 1965, received his B.A. degree from Northeastern University and his Master's Degree from Boston University and served as an Officer in the U.S. Air Force.

With Nick Tsiotos, he is co-author as well of Running With Pheidippides, the story of 1946 Boston Marathon winner Stylianos Kyriakides against daunting odds, and The Golden Greek: An All-American Story, the biography of Harry Agganis, an All-American football player at Boston University who was the Cleveland Browns first draft choice, but turned it down to play for the Boston Red Sox.

He also writes the columns Greek Beat for the Greek Reporter and Letter From Athens for The National Herald, and a blog, From Hellas, all of which manage to draw a lot of ire from readers who blame him for being leftist, centrist and rightist at the same time.

He believes in Jimmy Breslin's statement that, "Rage is the only quality that has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers," as well as Thomas Jefferson's, "Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions."