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Thursday, February 9, 2012
 

Since joining the Akron Beacon Journal in 1984, Bob Dyer has served as a feature writer, a radio/TV writer and a general-interest columnist.

Dyer’s stories and columns have won more than 30 regional and national awards. In 2008, the National Society of Professional Journalists voted him Best Columnist in the Nation.

In both 2009 and 2010, he was named Best Columnist in Ohio by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. The same honor was awarded by the Press Club of Cleveland in 2010.

This year, Dyer was voted Best Columnist in Ohio by the Associated Press.

The Cleveland native also was one of the lead writers for A Question of Color, a yearlong examination of racial attitudes in Akron that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.

In addition, he has written two books. One of them, Omar! My Life On and Off the Field, an autobiography co-written with Cleveland Indians baseball star Omar Vizquel, spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 2002, peaking at No. 27 among hardcover nonfiction.

His most recent book is The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports.

Dyer is a graduate of West Geauga High School and The College of Wooster.

Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com.

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