harles Leerhsen has written articles for Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Money, People, TV Guide and Seventeen. He has been an editor at SI, People and Us Weekly, and spent 11 years at Newsweek, where as a senior writer he covered sports (including several Olympic Games), entertainment, family stories and breaking news. At Newsweek he won the National Mental Health Association award for a cover story on alcohol and the family. He has also co-written three best-selling biographies: Trump: Surviving at the Top, with Donald Trump; Press On! Adventures in the Good Life, with pioneer aviator Chuck Yeager; and The Last Great Ride, with entertainment mogul Brandon Tartikoff. He is currently working on a book about the first Indianapolis 500, due out from Simon & Schuster in Spring 2011, timed to the race's centennial. Leerhsen has three daughters: Erica, an actor; Deborah, a banker; and Nora, a high school teacher in Chicago. He and his wife, Sarah Saffian Leerhsen (www.saffian.com), live in Brooklyn.