Brin-Jonathan Butler (born 1979) is a freelance journalist, Amazon interviewer, filmmaker and host of the podcast Tourist Information.
[2] His work has been published in The Classical,[3] The Rumpus[4], Harper's, The Daily Beast, Vice, ESPN The Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post and Salon.com.
The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again was published in 2018 and longlisted for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize.
[8] A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion, 2014, Picador:[9] a biography on Guillermo Rigondeaux The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba, 2015, Picador:[10] a memoir of time in Cuba living and training with Olympic boxing coaches.
The Domino Diaries was on The Boston Globe's list of Best Books of 2015[11] and was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2016.