Lew Freedman is a veteran newspaper sportswriter and experienced author of more than seventy books. He spent seventeen years at the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and wrote extensively about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He has also written several books about the Iditarod and had stories appear in Alaska Magazine and Alaska Airlines magazine. Freedman has also worked for the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer. A frequent traveler to Alaska, Freedman believes the Iditarod is one of the world's great sporting events and only wishes the dogs could talk so he could better write their story.