Sally Jenkins is an American feature writer for The Atlantic Monthly and the author of books including The Real All Americans, a history of the Carlisle Indian School football team. She previously wrote for the Washington Post and was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, and she has won the AP Sports Columnist of the Year Award five times. Jenkins is noted for her writing on Pat Summitt, Joe Paterno, Lance Armstrong and the United States Center for SafeSport. Her other history, The State of Jones, was written with John Stauffer and falls under military history.