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Mary Pilon is a journalist, author, and screenwriter focused primarily on the worlds of sports and business. She is the author of the bestselling books "The Monopolists" and "The Kevin Show," the co-editor of “Losers: Dispatches From the Other Side of the Scoreboard,” and co-host and co-author of “Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Brought Him Down.” Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, Esquire, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Vice, New York, and The New York Times, among other publications.
Pilon previously worked as a staff reporter with sports desk at The Times and at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered various aspects of business and finance.
A native of Eugene, Ore., Mary started working for her hometown paper, the Register-Guard as a teenager and was a wildly mediocre athlete.
Today, she often receives editorial input from her rescue puggle, Pedro, and grandmother claims to be her biggest fan.