Mary Pilon

Mary Pilon is the author of The Monopolists, the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling history of the board game, and the forthcoming "The Kevin Show" (Bloomsbury March 2018). A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Esquire, Fast Company, MSNBC, Vice, Politico, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, among other news outlets, Pilon is an award-winning journalist who has been a staff reporter covering sports at the New York Times and business at the Wall Street Journal. She worked as an Emmy-nominated producer for NBC Sports at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her work has been featured in the Best American Sportswriting and she made the Forbes magazine's first-ever 30 Under 30 list for media. A fledgling marathoner and a native Oregonian, she now lives in Brooklyn. Her grandmother claims to be her biggest fan.

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