award-winning journalist and author

John Rosengren is a freelance journalist based in Minneapolis. His articles have appeared in The Atavist, The Atlantic, GQ, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, and The Washington Post Magazine, among other publications. He’s also the author of ten books, including the novel A Clean Heart and the biography Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes. His work has won more than two dozen awards and been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award (though, alas, it didn’t win either of those).

Articles

The Reckoning

The Reckoning

Inside Minneapolis’s Lake Harriet homeless encampment, where a city’s growing housing crisis took on faces and names.

Mpls St. Paul Magazine, November 2020

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The Boxer

The Boxer

After sparring his way to a better
life more than two decades ago,
Moe Kayongo teaches kids in north Minneapolis to do the same thing.

Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, August 2024

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Featured Books

One man’s struggle to stay sane and sober in a dysfunctional treatment center run by a hard-drinking nun with an MBA.

When America needed a hero, Hank Greenberg was there: Hall of Fame baseball player, Jewish standard bearer, American legend.

Travel behind the scenes of the Minnesota high school hockey culture with a championship team and discover the drama and addiction of sports in America.