An afternoon with Christopher Clarey

Join us for an afternoon with Christopher Clarey for a discussion and signing of his book, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer.

Christopher Clarey has covered global sports for The New York Times for more than 30 years from bases in France, Spain and the United States. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and has reported from more than 100 Grand Slam tournaments, chronicling the major figures and issues of the Open era and interviewing everyone from Bjorn Borg to Serena Williams. His book “The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer,” a New York Times bestseller translated into 19 languages, was published in 2021 and 2022.

Fluent in French and Spanish, Mr. Clarey has traveled in and reported from more than 70 countries on six continents. In 1998, he was named chief sports correspondent and columnist at the International Herald Tribune, which later became the International New York Times.

Mr. Clarey has reported from 14 Olympics and nine world track and field championships. His other areas of expertise include soccer, golf and sailing: he has covered six World Cups, five America’s Cups, 22 British Opens and 10 Ryder Cups. But he also has reported on nearly every major international sport, including the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and the Rugby Union World Cup. He has written about more than 60 sports for the Times, covering everything from bullfighting to sepak takraw to the Inuit sport known as the knuckle hop.

In 2018, Mr. Clarey received the Eugene L. Scott Award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a career prize awarded for “communicating honestly and critically about the game” and for “making a significant impact on the tennis world”.  Previous winners include Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Mr. Clarey is also a past winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the breaking news category. His twitter account @christophclarey has been named one of 50 must-follows for tennis and the Olympics by Sports Illustrated and Eurosport.

A former television commentator for Eurosport, Mr. Clarey has made regular appearances for more than 20 years on major media outlets, including CNN, NPR and the BBC.

He and his wife Virginie are the proud parents of three multilingual children. Mr. Clarey is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where he played soccer, volleyball and tennis. He remains an active runner, hiker, biker, skier, racket sports player and youth soccer coach.