Kostya Kennedy is Editor in Chief of Premium Publishing at Dotdash Meredith. Formerly a senior writer and editor at Sports Illustrated, Kennedy is the author of True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Pete Rose: An American Dilemma and 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports. All three won the CASEY Award as the best baseball books of their respective years. He lives with his family in New York and has taught at Columbia and New York University.