Mark Jacob is the co-author of nine books about sports, history, and photography. He is former metro editor of the Chicago Tribune, where he directed the largest department in the biggest news organization in the Midwest.

During his years at the Tribune, Mark created the newspaper’s popular “10 Things You Might Not Know” history feature. He played a role in two of the Tribune’s Pulitzer Prizes: He was part of the team when the “Tribune staff” won the 2001 award for explanatory journalism, and he was Mary Schmich’s editor when she captured the 2012 award for commentary.

Mark’s books are:

• Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

• Aftershock: The Human Toll of War (CityFiles Press, 2019)

• Chicago Rules: Federal Cases That Defined the City and the Nation (CityFiles Press; 2019)

• 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything (Midway, 2013)

• Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Plot to Betray America (Lyons Press, 2012)

• What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame (Three Rivers Press/Random House, 2010)

• Chicago Under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

• Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confines (Contemporary Books, 2002)

• The Game That Was: The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection (Contemporary Books, 1996)