Daily News | Gwen Knapp, award-winning reporter, groundbreaking columnist, editor, and mentor, has died at 61
on Twitter: “She had a mind so fertile and quick that she’d rethink her ideas and arguments as we were still processing her first torrent of thoughts.”
In San Francisco, she became one of the country’s leading female columnists in the 1990s and 2000s, calling out big-name athletes for using performance-enhancing drugs, digging deep into the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative drug scandal, and championing human and gay rights. A lifelong swimmer, Ms. Knapp said she viewed sports — and life — as an attempt to achieve without making capricious success the ultimate goal.for the Chronicle in 2012.
She became a senior editor at the New York Times in 2014 and worked at first on the foreign and national desks. She later oversaw the night sports desk, and,Writing, due largely to her innate intensity and quest for perfection, was challenging for Ms. Knapp, and she was known to gnaw on her pens and scrape her fingers through her strawberry blond hair as she constructed her stories. On her Twitter profile, she called herself a “recovering sportswriter.
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