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Gary M. Pomerantz è nato il 17 novembre del 1960 a North Tarrytown nello Stato di New York ma, ben presto si trasferì con la famiglia ad Orlando, e si laureò in Storia a Berkeley presso l'Università della California nel 1982.
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Giornalista e saggista dopo varie esperienze lavorative in giro per gli States, oggi vive nell'area della Baia di San Francisco con la moglie e i loro tre figli.
Gary insegna al Corso di Laurea in Giornalismo dell'Università di Stanford e all'Università di Emory ad Atlanta ed è anche uno scrittore che ha pubblicato alcuni libri di saggistica che coprono una vasta gamma di argomenti.
Il suo "I biglietti del diavolo" racconta gli ultimi echi dei ruggenti anni '20 e l'oscurità della depressione dalla quale emerse con prepotenza la personalità di Ely Culbertson che seppe diffondere la mania del bridge nell'intera nazione e narra in maniera particolareggiata l'incredibile storia di sangue dei Bennett.
He spent nearly two decades as a daily journalist. In 1981, he followed John Feinstein and Michael Wilbon as a summer intern in the sports department at The Washington Post. At The Post, he covered the Washington Redskins, Georgetown University basketball and the National Football League.
In 1987-1988, he served as a Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, studying theater and the Bible. He then moved to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where, for the next 11 years, he wrote social and political profiles, special projects, columns and served on the newspaper’s editorial board.
His five nonfiction books feature a broad array of topics. Nine Minutes Twenty Seconds (2001), about the crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 7529, was also published in China, Germany and Britain.
In WILT, 1962 (2005), Pomerantz recreates the legendary night when basketball star Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pa. Named an Editors’ Choice book by The New York Times, WILT, 1962 was called by Entertainment Weekly “a meticulous and engaging narrative – a slam dunk of a read.” The Devil’s Tickets (Crown/Random House, 2009) is a true-crime thriller set in a bygone age when the card game of bridge was all the rage. The Devil's Tickets evokes the last echoes of the Roaring 20s and the darkness of the Depression when a suave and cunning Russian-born American named Ely Culbertson became the Barnum of a bridge craze that fueled marital uproar across the nation, including a husband-killing and sensational trial in Kansas City.
His most recent book, Their Life’s Work, was short-listed for the 2014 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
From 1999-2001 Pomerantz served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Emory University in Atlanta. For the past eight years at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., he has taught courses on specialized reporting and writing.
He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, and their three children.
