Saturday Keynote Speaker
H.G. (Buzz) Bissinger

Photo by Rob Clark, Jr.

Buzz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has written for the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of Friday Night Lights, a best-seller that is now a movie scheduled for release October 8, 2004 and, according to Sports Illustrated, the best book ever written about football. Another Hollywood connection: His Vanity Fair article about journalist-plagiarist Stephen Glass became the basis of the movie Shattered Glass.

In addition, Buzz is the author of A Prayer for the City, an exploration of Philadelphia city politics, and he's a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. His writing has also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing 2003. (He even worked as a story editor/writer for one season of NYPD Blue!)

To read an interview with Buzz that ran in a University of Pennsylvania publication, click here. Don’t miss out! Mark your calendars now for the event that attracts hundreds of freelance writers every year—the ASJA Writers Conference. You’ll hear inside information from editors, agents and publishers, find inspiration, and gain income-boosting ideas.