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Collected here for the first time are the best of Davis Miller's essays and memoirs. The volume contains his celebrated trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces, including the classic 'My Dinner with Ali', together with a provocative new essay called 'The Yin and the Yang of Muhammad Ali'. There are also two pieces about Miller's unusual relationship with another boxer, 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, and he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon - as he did in his acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Bruce Lee. The Zen of Muhammad Ali tells us about fighting, living, friendship and love. The pieces are arranged - each with an illuminating new note - to form a unique and haunting book.
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About the Author
Davis Miller's writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Esquire, Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, and numerous other periodicals. His first published story, 'My Dinner with Ali' was voted by the Sunday Magazine Editors Association to be the best essay published in a newspaper magazine in the US in 1989. Davis Miller has two children and lives in North Carolina.
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Davis Miller s essays and memoirs including the award-winning My Dinner with Ali.
Collected here for the first time are the best of Davis Miller s essays and memoirs. The volume contains the celebrated trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces, including the classic My Dinner with Ali, together with a provocative new essay called The Yin and the Yang of Muhammad Ali. The title story The Zen of Muhammad Ali was nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and was included in the 1994 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. There are also two pieces about Miller s unusual relationship with another boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard, and he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon as he did in his acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Bruce Lee. The book concludes with a section of compelling essays about Miller s own life - filled with the
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