Plymouth Court Stage
Saturday, Sept. 7th at 4pm

Mark Jacob’s latest book is Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports, co-written with his brother, Matthew Jacob. Mark is the co-author of nine other books, most of them related to history. He was metro editor of the Chicago Tribune, Sunday editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and website editor of Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative. He writes the Stop the Presses newsletter on media and politics. Mark served as Tribune columnist Mary Schmich’s editor when she won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.