ABOUT LUKE EPPLIN
Luke Epplin is the author of Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball and Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball.
Luke grew up in Litchfield, Illinois, a small town near St. Louis. In high school he was the captain of the cross-country, basketball, and track teams, but also read tons of Peanuts books and dreamed of being a cartoonist, a career cut short because of his inability to draw. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English literature. With nothing to lose, Luke packed two suitcases and bought a plane ticket to New York City. While crashing at a YMCA, he somehow convinced Random House to hire him and has worked continuously in book publishing since then in various capacities.
In 2004, Luke was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Chile. He spent the year in Santiago, interviewing authors and learning to play guitar with a local folk singer. In Chile, he published his first essay with n+1. Over the next decade, while earning a master’s degree at New York University and continuing to work in book publishing, he wrote articles for such publications as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Daily Beast, The Paris Review Daily, and The Washington Post.
Luke Epplin is the author of Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball and Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball.
Luke grew up in Litchfield, Illinois, a small town near St. Louis. In high school he was the captain of the cross-country, basketball, and track teams, but also read tons of Peanuts books and dreamed of being a cartoonist, a career cut short because of his inability to draw. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English literature. With nothing to lose, Luke packed two suitcases and bought a plane ticket to New York City. While crashing at a YMCA, he somehow convinced Random House to hire him and has worked continuously in book publishing since then in various capacities.
Luke Epplin is the author of Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball and Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball.
Luke grew up in Litchfield, Illinois, a small town near St. Louis. In high school he was the captain of the cross-country, basketball, and track teams, but also read tons of Peanuts books and dreamed of being a cartoonist, a career cut short because of his inability to draw. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English literature. With nothing to lose, Luke packed two suitcases and bought a plane ticket to New York City. While crashing at a YMCA, he somehow convinced Random House to hire him and has worked continuously in book publishing since then in various capacities.
In 2004, Luke was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Chile. He spent the year in Santiago, interviewing authors and learning to play guitar with a local folk singer. In Chile, he published his first essay with n+1. Over the next decade, while earning a master’s degree at New York University and continuing to work in book publishing, he wrote articles for such publications as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Daily Beast, The Paris Review Daily, and The Washington Post.
The inspiration for Luke’s first book, Our Team, came from his grandpa. Through stories of his grandpa’s childhood fandom of the St. Louis Brown, a Major League Baseball team that left Missouri in the mid-1950s, Luke learned about Bill Veeck. His initial idea was to center his first book on Veeck’s tenure as owner of the Browns, but while researching Veeck’s background, Luke became fascinated with his role in integrating the American League, along with three other figures that factored into that narrative: Larry Doby, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige. He moved to Cleveland for his research and eventually published Our Team in 2021. It went on to be a finalist for the Casey Award and garner praise from such publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People, and the Chicago Tribune.
For his second book Luke turned to his childhood love of basketball. In search of a similar turning point in basketball history as the one he’d chronicled in Our Team, during which players from the Negro Leagues crossed over into Major League Baseball and altered the sport, he settled on the merger of the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association. Two key figures in this transition formed the backbone of this narrative—Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone, a pair of opposing stars who eventually teamed up on the Philadelphia 76ers. Moses and the Doctor will be published in February 2026 from Grand Central Publishing.
Luke lives outside New York City with his wife and daughter. In whatever free time he finds, he runs, reads, frequents playgrounds, reads Peanuts books, and still wishes he could draw.
Find him on X (@LukeEpplin), Blue Sky (lukeepplin.bsky.social), and Instagram (@lepplin).
In 2004, Luke was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Chile. He spent the year in Santiago, interviewing authors and learning to play guitar with a local folk singer. In Chile, he published his first essay with n+1. Over the next decade, while earning a master’s degree at New York University and continuing to work in book publishing, he wrote articles for such publications as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Daily Beast, The Paris Review Daily, and The Washington Post.
The inspiration for Luke’s first book, Our Team, came from his grandpa. Through stories of his grandpa’s childhood fandom of the St. Louis Brown, a Major League Baseball team that left Missouri in the mid-1950s, Luke learned about Bill Veeck. His initial idea was to center his first book on Veeck’s tenure as owner of the Browns, but while researching Veeck’s background, Luke became fascinated with his role in integrating the American League, along with three other figures that factored into that narrative: Larry Doby, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige. He moved to Cleveland for his research and eventually published Our Team in 2021. It went on to be a finalist for the Casey Award and garner praise from such publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People, and the Chicago Tribune.
For his second book Luke turned to his childhood love of basketball. In search of a similar turning point in basketball history as the one he’d chronicled in Our Team, during which players from the Negro Leagues crossed over into Major League Baseball and altered the sport, he settled on the merger of the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association. Two key figures in this transition formed the backbone of this narrative—Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone, a pair of opposing stars who eventually teamed up on the Philadelphia 76ers. Moses and the Doctor will be published in February 2026 from Grand Central Publishing.
Luke lives outside New York City with his wife and daughter. In whatever free time he finds, he runs, reads, frequents playgrounds, reads Peanuts books, and still wishes he could draw.
Find him on X (@LukeEpplin), Blue Sky (lukeepplin.bsky.social), and Instagram (@lepplin).
The inspiration for Luke’s first book, Our Team, came from his grandpa. Through stories of his grandpa’s childhood fandom of the St. Louis Brown, a Major League Baseball team that left Missouri in the mid-1950s, Luke learned about Bill Veeck. His initial idea was to center his first book on Veeck’s tenure as owner of the Browns, but while researching Veeck’s background, Luke became fascinated with his role in integrating the American League, along with three other figures that factored into that narrative: Larry Doby, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige. He moved to Cleveland for his research and eventually published Our Team in 2021. It went on to be a finalist for the Casey Award and garner praise from such publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People, and the Chicago Tribune.
For his second book Luke turned to his childhood love of basketball. In search of a similar turning point in basketball history as the one he’d chronicled in Our Team, during which players from the Negro Leagues crossed over into Major League Baseball and altered the sport, he settled on the merger of the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association. Two key figures in this transition formed the backbone of this narrative—Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone, a pair of opposing stars who eventually teamed up on the Philadelphia 76ers. Moses and the Doctor will be published in February 2026 from Grand Central Publishing.
Luke lives outside New York City with his wife and daughter. In whatever free time he finds, he runs, reads, frequents playgrounds, reads Peanuts books, and still wishes he could draw.
Find him on X (@LukeEpplin), Blue Sky (lukeepplin.bsky.social), and Instagram (@lepplin).
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Luke Epplin is the author of Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball, and Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball.
His writing has appeared online in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, GQ, Slate, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review Daily. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Epplin lives outside of New York City with his wife and daughter.
Luke Epplin is the author of Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball, and Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball.
His writing has appeared online in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, GQ, Slate, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review Daily. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Epplin lives outside of New York City with his wife and daughter.
Luke Epplin is the author of Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball, and Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball.
His writing has appeared online in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, GQ, Slate, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review Daily. Born and raised in rural Illinois, Epplin lives outside of New York City with his wife and daughter.
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