Dawn Knight

Dawn Knight is an English teacher at Westfield High School in Westfield, IN, where she lives on a small horse farm with her husband and three kids. Knight's first book is Taliaferro: Breaking Barriers, the story of the Jackie Robinson of the NFL and winner of Foreword Magazine's 2007 Sports Book of the Year. Knight met Taliaferro when she took his social work class at Indiana University. Later, having heard Taliaferro's story of breaking racial barriers both on and off the football field, as a star on Indiana University's undefeated 1945 football team and as the first black man drafted by an NFL team, she knew his story had to be told. Knight is also an NFL panelist for the Washington Post's The League and is currently working on a historical fiction novel set in Westfield, Indiana, and centered around the town's founders, who were active in the Underground Railroad, and a slave family they rescued.