Mary Pilon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mary Pilon
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1986(1986-05-16)
Age	38
Birthplace	Eugene
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Taurus

Mary Pilon Biography

Mary Pilon is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 16, 1986 in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Mary Pilon (born May 16 in 1986, in Eugene, Oregon) is an American journalist, who writes primarily about business and sport. A frequent columnist for both The New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek her most recent books are The Monopolists (2015) and The Kevin Show (2018). The latter is currently being made into a feature film. She also served as a staff reporter who covered the sports industry at The New York Times and has contributed to Vice, Esquire, NBC News and many other publications.

The writer has written articles for Vice, Esquire, NBC Sports as well as articles about events in 2016 as well as the 2018 Olympics on behalf of the latter. Her writing has also been that were published by Fast Company, Smithsonian Magazine as well as Medium.

At The Times, Pilon authored “Tomato Can Blues,” a true-crime story of Charles Rowan; the story was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and the first audiobook, narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale. Her 2016 investigative reporting on sexual harassment in the trucking industry helped fuel a class action lawsuit by women truckers. In reporting on the NFL’s domestic violence policies for Bleacher Report/CNN the next year, the writer found that the league seldom enforced its own policies. She has also reported on the circumstances surrounding runner Steve Prefontaine`s death for ESPN’s Grantland and was among the first to report on Donald Trump’s immigrant mother in June 2016.

The Kevin Show tells the true story of Olympic and America`s Cup sailor Kevin Hall, who has battled a rare form of bipolar disorder known as the Truman Show Delusion. The book, released by Bloomsbury in March 2018, is a four year culmination of reporting on Hall’s delusions, the reality of being an Olympian, and an examination of mental illness. The book was a national bestseller and received positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews called it “grippingly provocative reading” and psychiatrist Dr. Edward Hallowell called it “spellbinding” and “brilliant.”

In February, the 17th of February, 2015, Bloomsbury published her debut publication, The Monopolists: Obsession, fury, as well as the scandal that Underlies The World’s Favorite Board Game, which tells the real history that inspired the popular board game Monopoly. Pilon took more than five years researching the game’s roots that go from the feminist Lizzie Magie and the Progressive Era. The book examines the Ralph Anspach, a professor of economics, and his decade-long legal battle to protect access to the game’s rights in his game Anti-Monopoly as well as his efforts to expose Magie to be the game’s original creator, even though Parker Brothers had incorrectly claimed that an individual, Charles Darrow, had invented the game in the Great Depression. (Magie passed away in 1948 without a trace working as secretary within Washington, D.C. and earned $500 from her idea.) The book became a fast bestseller and garnered high praise, with positive reviews in Slate and The Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, and the Boston Globe, among others. A journalist Gay Talese said that Pilon “writes with the assurance and energy of a historian who knows she has struck gold.”

Mary Pilon Net Worth

Mary Pilon is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary Pilon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Pilon was employed by Dow Jones, USA Today and New York Magazine and, from 2006 until the year 2008 Gawker. From 2008 until 2011, she covered Gawker. She was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal Money and Investing Section on finance and Wall Street during the financial crisis. She was one of the youngest reporters employed by the newspaper. She was awarded an award in the year 2011: the Gerald Loeb Prize in Breaking News for her coverage of the 2010 Flash Crash. She is known for her New Yorker contributions focus on the financial and legal aspects of sport.

The family was raised and born within Eugene, Oregon, she was a student at Eugene’s Winston Churchill High School. She initially reported for her hometown paper, The Register-Guard, as an teen. She later went to New York University, a part of the graduating class of 2008 who graduated with the degree of a political scientist and journalism. Her senior thesis was on the politics and people of methamphetamine trafficking earned New York University’s Edwin Diamond Award.

Pilon’s 2016 investigative reporting on sexual harassment in the trucking industry helped fuel a class action lawsuit by women truckers. In reporting on the NFL’s domestic violence policies for Bleacher Report/CNN the next year, the writer found that the league seldom enforced its own policies. She has also reported on the circumstances surrounding runner Steve Prefontaine`s death for ESPN’s Grantland. She also was among the first to report on Donald Trump’s immigrant mother in June 2016.

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Mary Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mary Pilon celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.