Steven Travers is the author of more than 20 books, including BARRY BONDS: Baseball’s Superman, nominated for a Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of 2002, and ONE NIGHT, TWO TEAMS: Alabama vs. USC and the Game That Changed a Nation, a 2007 PNBA nominee, subject of the CBS/CSTV documentary "Tackling Segregation," and currently in film development. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Travers coached at USC, Cal-Berkeley and in Europe; served in the Army; attended law school; and has been a sports agent. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, StreetZebra magazine, and the San Francisco Examiner. Travers has been a guest lecturer at USC’s Annenberg School for Communications since 2006 and writes for Gentry magazine. His screenplays include The Lost Battalion, 21 and Wicked. He lives in California and has a daughter, Elizabeth Travers Lee. 

Books by Steven Travers

The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey

by Steven Travers - Biography, History, Nonfiction

THE DUKE, THE LONGHORNS, AND CHAIRMAN MAO is a fly-on-the-wall exploration of a wild weekend and an immersion into the John Wayne mythology: his politics, his inspirations, the plots to assassinate him, his connections to Stalin, Khrushchev and Chairman Mao, and the death of the Western.