Richard Scheinin

Richard Scheinin's work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, and other national publications. A staff writer at SFJAZZ, he was the San Jose Mercury News' classical music and jazz critic for more than a decade and has profiled scores of public figures, from Sonny Rollins to Ike Turner and the Dalai Lama. He is the author of Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America’s National Pastime (W.W. Norton), a history of baseball.