Dan Washburn

Daniel Christopher Washburn (born October 31, 1973, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, named one of the best books of 2014 by The Financial Times.[1] Washburn is represented by the New York-based literary agent Zoe Pagnamenta.[2]

Washburn has written for Slate,[3] Financial Times Weekend Magazine,[4] The Atlantic,[5] Foreign Policy,[6] Golf World,[7] Golf Digest,[8] ESPN.com,[9] and other publications.

Washburn's work was featured in the 2008 book, Inside The Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On,[10] and the 2013 anthology Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China.[11]

From 2002 to 2011, Washburn was based in Shanghai, China,[12] where he was known for his various websites.[13] He is founding editor of Shanghaiist, part of the Gothamist network of city websites.[14]

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia. He won the Georgia Sports Writers Association's top prize in outdoors writing four years in a row. In 2001, he was named Georgia's top sports columnist.[15]

Washburn is currently Chief Content Officer at Asia Society in New York City.[16] He lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[17]