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Brendan O’Meara

Brendan O’Meara
Brendan O’Meara is a journalist and author of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine (Mariner Books). Since 2013, he has hosted The Creative Nonfiction Podcast where he talks to writers about the art and craft of telling true stories. You can follow him on Instagram @creativenonfictionpodcast and subscribe to his two monthly newsletters, Rage Against the Algorithm and Pitch Club.


Warts and All: In Praise of the Unauthorized Biography

Brendan O’Meara Offers Some Advice to Writers and Journalists Seeking to Go Beyond the Sanitized
June 23, 2025  By Brendan O’Meara
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Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine’s Olympic Debut

Brendan O’Meara on the Star Runner's Performance at the 1972 Summer Games
June 2, 2025  By Brendan O’Meara
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