Scott A. Sandage is a cultural historian at Carnegie Mellon University.
[1] He is best known as the author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, which was selected as an "Editor's Choice" book by Atlantic Monthly, and was awarded the 34th Annual Thomas J. Wilson Prize, for the best "first book" accepted by Harvard University Press.
In 2007 he was named as one of America's Top Young Historians by the History News Network.
His commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Industry Standard, Fast Company magazine, and other periodicals.
[3] As of 2020, his next book project is entitled Laughing Buffalo in Paris: A Tall Tale of Race from the Half-Breed Rez.