LA JOLLA, CA, August 05, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Mike Sager has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Mr. Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter. He's been called "the Beat poet of American journalism." For more than forty-five years he has worked as a writer primarily for The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire. In 2010 he won the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine award for profile writing. At least 30 of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired movies and documentaries, including Boogie Nights, with Mark Walberg, Veronica Guerin, with Kate Blanchette, and the Todd Marinovich Project, which aired on ESPN's well known "30 for 30" series. The author of more than a dozen books, Mr. Sager is also the editor and publisher of The Sager Group LLC, which since 2012 has published about 150 books, earning a reputation for both beautiful art and design and for publishing outstanding literary journalism, memoir, and fiction by both bestselling and first-time authors.

Mr. Sager's career began at The Washington Post in 1978, where he started as a copyboy. Eleven months later he was promoted to staff writer by Metro Editor Bob Woodward, who first came to prominence investigating the Watergate scandal. His six years at the newspaper laid the foundation for his successful transition into freelance writing and subsequent roles with prestigious publications.

In 1985 Mr. Sager became a Contributing Editor to Rolling Stone. At the magazine, Mr. Sager began to build his career as a wordsmith who combined investigative skills learned at the Post with an anthropological approach to reportage, spending weeks or months embedded with a crack gang in Los Angeles, Aryan Nations troopers in Idaho, football players in Samoa, U.S. Marines, Palestinians in Gaza, a 600-pound man, a high school student in Orange County, and a clown in San Francisco. This unique approach has earned him recognition as a "literary anthropologist" and has allowed Mr. Sager to provide insightful narratives that help readers understand diverse cultures and communities. Perhaps his best-remembered stories for RS were "The Devil and John Holmes," about the seminal porn star's involvement with murder and drugs, which inspired two movies, and "The Rise and Fall of a Super Freak," about the musician Rick James.

Mr. Sager moved to GQ Magazine in 1991, where he worked as a writer at large for six years. A number of his crime stories, particularly "The Martyrdom of Veronica Guerin," about an Irish detective murdered by the mob, were optioned for movies, as was "Janet's World," about a Washington Post reporter, Janet Cooke, who won (and then lost) a Pulitzer Prize for a story about an eight-year-old heroin addict that proved to be a fabrication.

Since 1997, Mr. Sager has been a writer at large or a contributing editor for Esquire Magazine, where has done dozens of stories, including celebrity profiles, true crime, sports, politics, and essays. He is credited for inventing Esquire's well-regarded What I've Learned series. Highlights of his feature stories include an in-depth look at basketball legend Kobe Bryant, football's fallen "Robo-QB" Todd Marinovich, which won the 2010 ASME, and "Old," for which Mr. Sager embedded with a 92-year-old man for several months in a retirement community in Arizona.

Mr. Sager has read and lectured at schools of journalism across the country and in Europe. For four years he served as a visiting writer at the University of California, Irvine. His work is included in a number of textbooks presently in use in college classrooms. For five years he served as an adjunct professor in Goucher College's low-residence MFA/Creative Nonfiction Program.

In 1978, Mr. Sager's received a bachelor's degree in history and creative writing from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His time at Emory was marked by a stint on the varsity soccer team, and leadership roles as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Archon, and managing editor of the campus weekly, The Emory Wheel. He also served as president of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and was recognized as Tau Epsilon Phi National Man of the Year. These experiences helped shape Mr. Sager's work ethic and contributed to his development of his "Theory of Originals," which echews competition and emphasizes being the best version of oneself.

In addition to his professional achievements, Mr. Sager coached youth soccer and basketball and later managed youth teams, helping to launch the Impact Soccer League in La Jolla, CA.

Throughout his career, Mr. Sager has remained grounded in the values of hard work, compassion and authenticity. He reflects on the support he received from others and emphasizes the importance of initiative, perseverance and mentorship. Through sheer will, Mr. Sager has built a career that reflects both personal resolve and a deep commitment to the craft.

Though retired from journalism, Mr. Sager continues to publish, write, and lecture, reflecting a lifelong dedication to storytelling, mentorship and creative independence. His son, Miles, is a producer who lives in Atlanta, GA.

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