harles Leerhsen, an executive editor at Sports Illustrated, has written articles for SI, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Money, People, TV Guide and Seventeen. He was an editor at 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 has three daughters: Erica, an actor; Deborah, a banker; and Nora, a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He and his wife, Sarah Saffian Leerhsen (www.saffian.com), live in Brooklyn.