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Jon Mark Beilue
Jon Mark Beilue, like Wales Madden, grew up in the Texas Panhandle, although it was some thirty years later, and in a much smaller place. Beilue grew up in the small town of Groom,...view moreJon Mark Beilue, like Wales Madden, grew up in the Texas Panhandle, although it was some thirty years later, and in a much smaller place. Beilue grew up in the small town of Groom, the son of a farmer and a high school English and journalism teacher.
In high school, after summers and weekends toiling on the farm, he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life, but he knew it should involve air-conditioning. Working on the school paper gave him an idea.
Beilue went to Texas Tech, worked on the university daily student newspaper, and graduated with a BA in journalism in 1981. He was hired first as a sportswriter with Amarillo Globe-News that summer.
Thinking he would be there a couple of years, it has been more than thirty-five. The first twenty-five years were in the sports department, the last seventeen of them as sports editor. In 2006, he became the Globe-News’ general columnist, the first for the newspaper since the 1970s.
He has won numerous statewide and national awards in his career, and a book of his columns, This Might Be a Good Story, was published in 2014.
He and his wife, Sandy, have two grown sons.view less
Books by Jon Mark Beilue
Climb Every Mountain: The Life Story of Wales H. Madden Jr. as Told to Jon Mark Beilue