Kate Buford’s award-winning Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Knopf 2010) was an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times.  The paperback was published in 2012 by the U. of Nebraska Press. Burt Lancaster: An American Life (Knopf/Da Capo/Aurum UK) was named one of the best books of 2000 by The New York Times, The Washington Post and others, and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. In 2013 Knopf released an ebook edition in honor of the centennial of Lancaster’s birth. Buford has written for The New York Times, Film Comment, Bluegrass Unlimited, The Daily Beast, among other publications, and was a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition and APM’s Marketplace from 1995 - 2004. A member of PEN, the NYU Biographers Seminar, and Biographers International Organization (BIO), she lives in Virginia and New York.