Mary Pilon

Mary Pilon
Born (1986-05-16) May 16, 1986 (age 38)
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Writer
  • Director
  • Producer
Notable work
  • The Monopolists
  • The Kevin Show
  • Losers
  • The Longest Race
Signature

Mary Pilon (born 16 May 1986 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American journalist and filmmaker who primarily covers sports and business. A regular contributor to the New Yorker and Bloomberg Businessweek,[1][2] her books are The Monopolists (2015), The Kevin Show (2018), Losers: Dispatches From the Other Side of the Scoreboard (2020, with Louisa Thomas), and The Longest Race, co-authored with Olympian Kara Goucher. She has also worked as a staff reporter covering sports for The New York Times[3] and business at The Wall Street Journal and has also written and produced for Vice, Esquire, NBC News, among other outlets.[4]

At the Times, Pilon authored a story that was the first-ever graphic novel for the paper and its first audiobook, "Tomato Can Blues," a true-crime story of Charles Rowan; it was narrated by actor Bobby Cannavale.

She is an adjunct professor at NYU's Carter Institute of Journalism, where she teaches a graduate-level investigative reporting class.[5]

  1. ^ Pilon, Mary (28 January 2015). "Carolina Kostner and the Fight Against Doping". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Mary Pilon". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Recent and archived work by Mary Pilon for The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  4. ^ Pilon (18 July 2016). ""Nonfiction: The Dark History of the Olympics"". New York Times.
  5. ^ "About Us: Mary Pilon, Adjunct Faculty". NYU Arts & Sciences: NYU Journalism.