David Epstein

David Epstein is an American journalist who writes about science in sports. He is the author of The Sports Gene, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, and both Range and The Sports Gene were New York Times best sellers. Earlier he was an investigative reporter at ProPublica and a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he and Selena Roberts broke the story that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003. His two TED talks on his books have been viewed more than 12 million times.