Dan Robson is a Canadian journalist and nonfiction author whose work combines long-form sports reporting, biography, and memoir. He is a senior enterprise writer for The Athletic and a sessional lecturer in Toronto Metropolitan University’s RTA Sports Media program. His official website also records work for Sportsnet, including reported features and documentaries.
Robson’s books frequently approach public sporting lives through detailed narrative research. His biography Quinn: The Life of a Hockey Legend examines hockey coach Pat Quinn, while the catalog title Bower recounts the life of Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Johnny Bower, drawing on records, contemporary accounts, and interviews. He has also co-written The Crazy Game, Change Up, and Killer with their respective subjects. In Measuring Up, Robson turns to family history: the memoir follows his efforts to understand his late father’s practical skills and the meaning of home, grief, and fatherhood.
His work has received recognition in both journalism and books. Bower won the Ontario Historical Society’s 2019 Donald Grant Creighton Award for the best Ontario biography, and Measuring Up was shortlisted for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Robson’s official biography also notes a National Magazine Award, a National Newspaper Award, and a 2023 Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting finalist citation. His current public profile continues to foreground reported sports features alongside his books and teaching.
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