Dan Washburn

Dan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, which The Wall Street Journal called "strikingly original," The Economist called "gripping," and The Financial Times named one of the Best Books of 2014. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, FT Weekend Magazine, Slate, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Economist, Golf World, Golf Digest, ESPN, and other publications. His work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On. Dan is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist, which grew into one of the most widely read English-language websites about China. After almost a decade in China, followed by more than eight years in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Media, Pennsylvania, with his wife Bliss, their daughter Isabelle, and the Shanghai-born family dog Tux.