Mike Lupica was born in Oneida, New York, in 1952 and grew up partly in Nashua, New Hampshire. He graduated from Boston College in 1974 and started his career as a sportswriter.
He joined the New York Daily News in 1977 and spent most of the next four decades there as a sports and later political columnist, leaving in 2018. He also wrote for Esquire and other magazines and became a familiar face on ESPN.
Lupica has written adult mysteries, including the Peter Finley novels, whose first, Dead Air, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and many bestselling sports novels for young readers such as Travel Team and Heat. He has also collaborated on memoirs with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells.
He became the Jesse Stone author with Fool's Paradise in 2020, followed by Stone's Throw and Fallout. He has also written continuation novels featuring Parker's Sunny Randall and Spenser.
