David Steele

Writer
Author

Laurel, Maryland

Member Since:
May 2013

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About David

David Steele has been a professional sports journalist for more than 35 years, and currently writes for the legal news website Law360. Previously he wrote for The Sporting News, AOL FanHouse, the Baltimore Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday. His work has appeared in ESPN's Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated), the NAACP magazine The Crisis, the Washington, D.C., City Paper and The Grio.

In 2022 he authored It Was Always a Choice, named one of the 10 best books of the year in Arts & Humanities by Library Journal. He has also co-authored Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and won the Nonfiction Honor from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association; and Four Generations of Color, with pioneering sports agent, major-league baseball scout and collegiate coach Dr. Miles McAfee.

In 2009 he received the Wiley Daniels Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Black Media Workers in Baltimore.

A graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, he has won awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, the Chesapeake Associated Press, the California News Publishers Association, the Florida Sportswriters Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Maryland's College of Journalism, and is a member of the advisory board at the College of Journalism's Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism.

He lives near his hometown of Washington, D.C.

Unique traits: The writing abilities and the story topics I have developed over my three decades as a sports journalist across several platforms, has led me to want to try my hand at writing more non-fiction books in sports and other areas, and to develop products for short- and long-form audio and video platforms. I am working on proposals and will be looking to pitch them in 2023 and beyond. I also hope to begin voiceover work, starting at the beginning.

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
African American