Neil Offen

Neil Offen has been a journalist for more than fifty years and on two continents. The author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, he’s been a sports reporter, a newspaper and magazine editor, a radio newsman, and has written a nationally syndicated comic strip.

He has interviewed Muhammad Ali, covered Apollo 11, ridden the Orient Express, and once even met Cary Grant. Most important, he finished first in his age group in a recent 5K.

His most recent book is Building a Better Boomer.

Ten Things I Can’t Do Without

1. Pizza
2. Exercise, particularly running
3. My nitroglycerin pills
4. Hitchcock movies
5. The Greek island of Naxos
6. Graham Greene novels
7. The music of The Beatles
8. Travel
9. Live theater
10. My family