About the Author
DENNY DRESSMAN concluded a 44-year newspaper career in June 2007, retiring from the Rocky Mountain News in Denver after 25 years. From 1992 to 2001 he was vice president for labor and human resources at the News. Earlier, he was city editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer and editor of the Oakland Tribune. He began his career as a sports writer at The Kentucky Post and the Courier-Journal & Louisville Times. He was inducted into the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame in 2008.
Dressman served as president of the Colorado Authors’ League, the state’s oldest professional writers organization, for two and a half years, from January 2016 through June 2018. Author of one book in Cincinnati in 1981, he resumed writing books in 2005, and his ninth book, Beyond The Camps – From Japanese-American Internment Nightmare To ‘American Dream’ was published in April 2018. This biography of horse trainer John Parisella is his tenth book.
His past books—all nonfiction—include a biography of iconic Grambling football coach Eddie Robinson titled EDDIE ROBINSON ‘... he was the Martin Luther King of football’ that was a Coloradoa Books Awards finalist; first-person accounts of the wartime experiences of 36 veterans from northeast Colorado titled Sterling Heroes of World War II; a behind-the-scenes true story about the 1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game titled HEARD but not SEEN: Richard Nixon, Frank Robinson and The All-Star Game’s most debated play; and The Idea Within: David Griggs and his quest for meaning in public art.
Dressman has edited a dozen other books; written for several magazines; taught writing and editing in the University of Denver’s University College continuing education program; and won several writing awards. He is a past president of the Colorado Press Association, the trade organization representing the state’s newspapers.